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> [emergence of order]

The Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution (1991)

https://www.abebooks.com/9780195058116/Origins-Order-Self-Or...

> Did mitochondria have any idea

It remains a possibility, not subject to fascile dismissal, that ‘our world’ is a side-effect of a self reflecting mind. You will note on serious reflection that all you know and experience is ‘image’ and ‘imagination’. Now that there is a ‘correspondence’ to an ‘outside reality’ is only obtained when there are 2 or more of ‘us sentients’ and we compare notes using ‘language’ (with all its limitations and to be understood in its maximal sense & associated limitations, including ‘expression’, ‘communication’ and ‘reading’).

> Biology is applied physics

Not all applications of physical laws result in living forms. Physics can be applied to understand (some aspects) of biological entities given that they are (conceptuallyminimally in part) made of physical stuff subject to governing regime of matter we study as physics.