"Functional information and the emergence of biocomplexity" Robert Hazen & Jack Szostak
http://www.pnas.org/content/104/suppl.1/8574.full
Last but not least, not slouches, Robert Hazen, working with the Nobel Prize winner Jack Szostak are working on their thesis. The interdisciplines of science are really communicating now going in the same direction of greater comprehension, a matter of time we'll find answers TOE.
Despite this diversity, a common thread is present: All complex systems alter their environments in one or more ways, which we refer to as functions ( 32). In the words of von Baeyer ( 18), “Information gathering by itself, without observable effects on the gatherer's behavior, is a pointless pursuit.” Function is thus the essence of complex systems. Accordingly, we focus on function in our operational definition of complexity. Therefore, although many previous investigators have explored aspects of biological systems in terms of information , we adopt a different approach and explore information in terms of the function of a system (including biological systems).
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