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COMPLEXITY

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The Difference Between Biology and Physics

John Hopfield: Biological entities might have a lot of things that you can describe in terms of physics, but they have this special character. They take information from the environment, they process it and respond in adaptive ways. When all these starts, when an agent in a prebiotic or early evolution scenario, when is information relevant? And identify the nature of information and is a distinction between information and computation. This is all open questions. John Hopfield: We need to put physics there, we need to make things destabilize - how is this connected with the Iranian virus which seems to be very different than other distant things such as protosils.

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