An Interview with Jack Szostak
Jack Szostak: “Life in Lab” In 3 – 5 Years
that was in 2014?
2014 + 5 = 2019?
there yet?
Is there any delay?
In the first half of the 20th century, it was predicted by prominent scientists (Erwin Schrodinger among others) that a living thing (an autonomous open-ended self-replicator) would have to be specified from memory in order to exist. It was later predicted this would require a symbol system, a language structure, and semantic closure in order to function. In the second half of the 20th century, each of these things was famously confirmed via experimental result, and each has been subsequently (and carefully) described in the literature using the language and equations of physics. The symbol system requires discontinuous association mediated by a set independent constraints; the language structure requires spatial orientation to enable multiple referents in a rate-independent medium, and semantic closure requires the simultaneous corporeal organization of the system in order for it to persist over time. It is also noted in the literature that the equations used to model the elementary forces of nature (as also predicted) are not capable of modeling this organization (requiring complimentary descriptions throughout both physics and biology); and that the only other organization known to science that has this type of structure is human language and mathematics (i.e. two unambiguous correlates of intelligence).
is the cellular gene system (at the very heart of Life and evolution on earth) dependent on an irreducible system of symbols and constraints, a language structure, and a simultaneous organization of the system? Or not?
If you feel this is too much to bite off, then we can certainly break it down into smaller pieces, you will find that none of those pieces of evidence (like the discontinuous association mentioned above) are even in question.
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