The Strange Inevitability of Evolution

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6. Manfred Eigen is on the Board of Sponsors of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

The last paragraph in the article:

These ideas suggest that evolvability and openness to innovation are features not just of life but of information itself. That is a view long championed by Schuster’s sometime collaborator, Nobel laureate chemist Manfred Eigen, who insists that Darwinian evolution is not merely the organizing principle of biology but a “law of physics,” an inevitable result of how information is organized in complex systems. And if that’s right, it would seem that the appearance of life was not a fantastic fluke but almost a mathematical inevitability.

From Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred_Eigen

Eigen is a member of the Board of Sponsors of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists is known for the Doomsday Clock:

http://thebulletin.org/overview

Overview

The Doomsday Clock is an internationally recognized design that conveys how close we are to destroying our civilization with dangerous technologies of our own making. First and foremost among these are nuclear weapons, but the dangers include climate-changing technologies, emerging biotechnologies, and cybertechnology that could inflict irrevocable harm, whether by intention, miscalculation, or by accident, to our way of life and to the planet.

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