What Would Be Conserved If ``The Tape Were Played Twice''?

Walter Fontana and Leo W. Buss

Working Papers from Santa Fe Institute

Abstract: We develop an abstract chemistry, implemented in a $\lambda$-calculus based modelling platform, and argue that the following features are generic to this particular abstraction of chemistry, hence would be expected to reappear if ``the tape were run twice'': (i) hypercycles of self-reproducing objects arise, (ii) if self-replication is inhibited, self-maintaining organizations arise, and (iii) self-maintaining organizations, once established, can combine into higher-order self-maintaining organizations.

Date: 1993-10
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