Protocells: Bridging Nonliving and Living Matter - ISBN 0262182688 - MIT Press 2008
Skimming
- first pass with titles and conclusions
- three functional components (Figure I.1 in the Introduction
courtesy of the FLinT, Center for Fundamental Living Technology, University of Southern Denmark)- metabolism
- container
- genes
- virtual models
- software
- Virtual Cell NRCAM
- Programmable Artificial Cell Evolution
- see the long list (p?)
- cognitive framework
- chemoton
- Lattice artificial chemistry
- Lattice molecular automaton
- see the ending glossary (p?)
- (not in the book) Conductance-based models seem to be pretty related too
- software
- fractal pattern of ontogenic growth
- 8 - Constructive Approach to Protocells: Theory and Experiments
- 8.3 Theoretical Issue 2: Origin of Recursive Production and Evolvability
- 8 - Constructive Approach to Protocells: Theory and Experiments
- seems to have nearly no occurance of "cognition" but plenty of "recognition"
- probably highlighting the importance of the membrane
- still key to Stewart's life=cognition (never mentioned in the book)
- probably highlighting the importance of the membrane
- enaction by Varela/Maturana
- chapters referencing Maturana, H., & Varela, F. (1980). Autopoiesis and cognition: The realization of the living
- 3 - Semisynthetic Minimal Cells
- 4 - A Roadmap to Protocells
- 9 - Origin of Life and Lattice Artificial Chemistry
- 12 - Evolutionary Microfluidic Complementation Toward Artificial Cells
- 22 - Ganti’s Chemoton Model and Life Criteria
- chapters referencing Maturana, H., & Varela, F. (1980). Autopoiesis and cognition: The realization of the living
- 20 - Core Metabolism as a Self-Organized System
- "Metabolism of protocells should be based on pathways with the lowest thresholds to autocatalysis."
- "We suggest that the order of life should be understood as a statistical phenomenon, from the smallest to the largest structures, and from the earliest chemical stages to the persistence of modern forms."
- 21 - Energetics, Energy Flow, and Scaling in Life
- 21.4 - Energy and Information (p469)
- 24 - Nonlinear Chemical Dynamics and the Origin of Life
- Conclusion, 2, "The Darwinian evolution with its exponential growth occurs once one has the capacity for self-catalysis, or perhaps more accurately, self-driven reproduction, with evolution occurring as a result of occasional errors in the self-reproduction process, with the defective product still having the ability to self-reproduce. Competition for resources coupled with the environment itself will, of course, provide the subsequent selection." (p560)
- three functional components (Figure I.1 in the Introduction
Overall questions and remarks
- life a self-sustaining process relying on sub-processes and mainly homeostasis
See also
- my notes on The Things We Do: Using the Lessons of Bernard and Darwin to Understand the What, How, and Why of Our Behavior]] by Gary Cziko
- The EvoGrid: The Evolution Technology Grid by Bruce Damer et al.
- Did evolution come before life? by Bob Holmes, New Scientist 2008
- Shapes and Self-Movement in Protocell Systems by Keisuke Suzuki and Takashi Ikegami, Artificial Life Winter 2009
- Evolvable Self-Reproducing Cells in a Two-Dimensional Artificial Chemistry by Tim J. Hutton, Artificial Life Winter 2007
- Was our oldest ancestor a proton-powered rock? by Nick Lane, New Scientist October 2009
- How life evolved: 10 steps to the first cells by Nick Lane and Michael Le Page, New Scientist October 2009
- Chemiosmosis "the diffusion of ions across a selectively-permeable membrane." according to Wikipedia
- Electron Transport Chain Animation Overview (Chemiosmosis), DaggerBiology 2008
- A l’origine de la vie, La marche des sciences, France Culture December 2009
- Alife XII 2010 at the Center for Fundamental Living Technology (FLinT) at University of Southern Denmark (SDU)
- the emerging field of systems chemistry
- Journal of Systems Chemistry dealing with several topics including
- catalytic and autocatalytic systems
- self-replicating and self-reproducing chemical systems
- Instant insight: Systems chemistry Chemical Science by RSC Publishing 2007
- Journal of Systems Chemistry dealing with several topics including
- Venter’s Successes in Creating Synthetic Life by Aaron Saenz, Singularity Hub February 2010
- Pine Group Web Pages Department of Physics and Center for Soft Matter Research at New York University
- self-assembly, both to understand how nature employs it to form complex and useful structures, and to develop methods to manipulate it to make interesting new materials.
- Spherical Life: Schemes for Colloidal Self-Replication by David Pine, ENS February 2010
- cf the earlier conference watched a year ealier, February 2009, DNA Self-assembly and Computer System Fabrication by Chris Dwyer from Duke University, ResearchChannel, 2007
- Researchers start up cell with synthetic genome Nature News May 2010
- JCVI: Research First Self-Replicating Synthetic Bacterial Cell funded by Synthetic Genomics, Inc.
- Synthetic biology: And man made life The Economist May 2010
- Earliest sense is for monastic rooms, then prison rooms (1722). Used in 14c., figuratively, of brain "compartments;" used in biology 17c. of various cavities Cell according to the Online Etymology Dictionary
- Wikipedia:Cell (biology)#History
- discovered thanks to The Story of Science: Power, Proof and Passion : What Is the Secret of Life?, BBC May 2010
- Protocells by Rachel Armstrong
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