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Biological function and the genetic code are interdependent
2006
Chaos, Solitons & Fractals
Life never ceases to astonish scientists as its secrets are progressively revealed. In particular the origin of life remains a mystery. One wonders how the scientific community could unravel a unique past event with such low probability. This paper shows that there are logical reasons for this problem. Life expresses both function and sign systems. This parallels the logically necessary symbolic self-referring structure in self-reproducing systems. Due to the abstract character of function and
doi:10.1016/j.chaos.2005.08.146
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