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1. Computer Science › Cellular Automata and Applications

   What would be conserved if "the tape were played twice"?

   Fontana and Buss · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1994

   The authors build an abstract chemistry in a lambda-calculus-based platform and argue that three features of self-reproduction and self-maintenance would reappear if evolution's tape were replayed.

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   1. Contested · 33%In an abstract, computer-modelled chemistry, hypercycles, self-maintaining organizations and their combinations are argued to be generic, so likely to recur.“We develop an abstract chemistry, implemented in a lambda-calculus-based modeling platform, and argue that the following features are generic to this particular abstraction of chemistry; hence, they would be expected to reappear if "the tape were run twice": (i) hypercycles of self-reproducing obje…”