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Life's Irreducible Structure: Live mechanisms and information in DNA are boundary conditions with a sequence of boundaries above them.
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Mechanisms, whether man-made or morphological, are boundary conditions harnessing the laws of inanimate nature, being themselves irreducible to those laws. The pattern of organic bases in DNA which functions as a genetic code is a boundary condition irreducible to physics and chemistry. Further controlling principles of life may be represented as a hierarchy of boundary conditions extending, in the case of man, to consciousness and responsibility.
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- Authors
- Polanyi, M.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 1968-06-21
- Volume
- 160
- Issue
- 3834
- Pages
- 1308-1312
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W2172110387
- Cited by
- 610
- References
- 1
- FWCI
- 106.77
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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