Open Prebiotic Environments Drive Emergent Phenomena and Complex Behavior

Overview

Journal Life (Basel)

Specialty Biology

Date 2019 Jun 6

PMID 31163645

Citations 6

Authors

Nathaniel Wagner

David Hochberg

Enrique Peacock-Lopez

Indrajit Maity

Gonen Ashkenasy

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Abstract

We have been studying simple prebiotic catalytic replicating networks as prototypes for modeling replication, complexification and Systems Chemistry. While living systems are always open and function far from equilibrium, these prebiotic networks may be open or closed, dynamic or static, divergent or convergent to a steady state. In this paper we review the properties of these simple replicating networks, and show, via four working models, how even though closed systems exhibit a wide range of emergent phenomena, many of the more interesting phenomena leading to complexification and emergence indeed require open systems.

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