Looking at the Beginnings

Walter Riofrio (1)

1 Neuroscience and Behaviour Division

It seems important to find the conceptual and simulated ways that will help us advance to a more integral understanding of the properties that enable concerted interaction among all the components in biological systems. What are the reasons in the physical reality that make possible both the emergence and self-maintenance of cellular organization, the nature of which is functional? An interesting problem is ascertaining the causes that produced the emergence of dynamic organization in living organisms. Hence, to ask about the emergence of the dynamic organization of living systems prompts us, by necessity, to ask about its origin. Perhaps, the crucial controversy between “RNA-first” and “metabolism-first” scenario would be better comprehended focusing our quest in the deepen implications of biological functions and information emergence.

Mots clés: far from thermodynamic equilibrium; self-organized systems; prebiotic world dynamics; open-ended evolution; evolvability; far from thermodynamic equilibrium.

Domaines: Adaptation et Systèmes auto-organisés [nlin.AO]; Organisation et fonctions cellulaires [q-bio.SC]; Evolution [q-bio.PE]

Walter Riofrio. Looking at the Beginnings. 2006. ⟨hal-00147070⟩