I have long regarded material self organization and energy flux/transformation as fundamental properties of matter, at least under the rules governing material interactions in this universe. Carbon chemistry in particular offers so many increasingly self-organized ways that can happen. Good to see physicists thinking in terms of the fundamental mechanics underlying self-organized biological systems!

I never made that connection or realized the full importance of thermodynamics when I was in school. The reason anything and everything happens in chemistry is because it eventually moves things to a lower state of energy. Applying the same general idea to the appearance of life in our universe makes sense to me.

Statistical Physics of Adaptation certainly is something to know.


Descartes wrote this quote in part IV of his work “Discourse on Method of Rightly Conducting One’s Reason and of Seeking the Truth in the Sciences” published in 1637.

“I Think Therefore I Am” .

However from my view man must understand how to manipulate gravity to understand life.

My understanding needs a whole lot of improvement. So thanks for the link to quantum magazine.

throughout the universe without there also being a Supreme Intelligence present to sustain it.

Of course, another famous physicist, Stephen Hawking, thinks differently. Take your pick.