Biological function and the genetic code are interdependent

Øyvind Albert Voie
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
more » ... ign systems, life is not a subsystem of natural laws. This suggests that our reason is limited in respect to solving the problem of the origin of life and that we are left accepting life as an axiom.
doi:10.1016/j.chaos.2005.08.146 fatcat:h432xxwdlvcrpjqdrc74qaqkri