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near one of the peaks of that landscape. As the form evolves, it makes short trips to
nearby peaks (or falls into a valley of reduced viability.)
15.8 What do you think might be the minimal set of chemical elements and
interactions (’rules’) to sustain an organic life system? Try to justify your answer.
15.9 Think of how to write a primitive computer program that would take a minimal
set of entities (‘varieties’) and one or two types of interaction between those entities,
set the entities in random encounters, and see if life evolves.
15.10 In the previous problem, how would punctuated evolution show itself?
15 Ordering Theory
near one of the peaks of that landscape. As the form evolves, it makes short trips to
nearby peaks (or falls into a valley of reduced viability.)
15.8 What do you think might be the minimal set of chemical elements and
interactions (’rules’) to sustain an organic life system? Try to justify your answer.
15.9 Think of how to write a primitive computer program that would take a minimal
set of entities (‘varieties’) and one or two types of interaction between those entities,
set the entities in random encounters, and see if life evolves.
15.10 In the previous problem, how would punctuated evolution show itself?