LIFE: A GENE-CENTRIC VIEW


	LIFE: A GENE-CENTRIC VIEW

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2-7-2008 6:11 AM

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2-7-2008 6:12 AM

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There is no contradiction, of course, between a system being understood in terms of its information content and it being understood in terms of its material substrate.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/855b0c4f-f81e-46ce-989f-cd284d64f4c9/98C2A572-E6EC-426A-B888-3AD39BE00E91/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge235.html" href="http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge235.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.edge.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge235.html"><STRONG>Craig Venter & Richard
                      Dawkins: A Conversation in Munich</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge235.html"><STRONG>(Moderator: John Brockman)</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge235.html"><FONT size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">"Individuals
            are not stable things," he wrote, "they are fleeting.
            Chromosomes too are shuffled into oblivion, like hands of cards
            soon after they are dealt. But the cards themselves survive the
            shuffling. The cards are the genes. The genes are not destroyed
            by crossing over, they merely change partners and march on. Of
            course they march on. That is their business. They are the replicators
            and we are their survival machines. When we have served our purpose,
            we are cast aside. But genes are the denizens of geological time:
            genes are forever."</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge235.html">"Notions
            like Selfish Genes, memes, and extended phenotypes are powerful
            and exciting," notes computer scientist W. Daniel Hillis. "They
            make me think differently. Unfortunately, I spend a lot of time
            arguing against people who have over interpreted these ideas</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge235.html">They're
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