The universe is made up of matter, energy and information, interacting with each other and producing new kinds of matter, energy, information and interaction. How? How did all this come out of a cloud of dust? In order to find explanations we first need much better descriptions of what needs to be explained. This is a multi-disciplinary project attempting to describe and explain the variety of biological information-processing mechanisms involved in the production of new biological information-processing mechanisms, on many time scales, between the earliest days of the planet with no life, only physical and chemical structures, including volcanic eruptions, asteroid impacts, solar and stellar radiation, and many other physical/chemical processes (or perhaps starting even earlier, when there was only a dust cloud in this part of the solar system?).
Evolution can be thought of as a (blind) Theorem Prover (or theorem discoverer). Proving (discovering) theorems about what is possible (possible types of information, possible types of information-processing, possible uses of information-processing) Proving (discovering) many theorems in parallel (including especially theorems about new types of information and new useful types of information-processing) Sharing partial results among proofs of different things (Very different biological phenomena may share origins, mechanisms, information, ...) Combining separately derived old theorems in constructions of new proofs (One way of thinking about symbiogenesis.)
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