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To: Brumar89 who wrote (31519)	12/6/2012 4:48:59 PM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

If there's a documented chemical path resulting in natural formation of an information encoding system, you can post it. Message 28584907 That was already posted to you yesterday here, all chemical interactions & molecular joinings are inherently information bearing and do tend to self organize under the right conditions. The conditions & combinations of forces & energies on this planet were super charged for this naturally emerging complexity, not all spaces are the same you know! (very little change some places , try Uranus!) 8.8 Self-Organization The amount of information contained in organized or complex matter is very high. This information is distributed among the shapes of the component molecules, and in the interaction patterns among them. The build up of this information involves a succession of stages: molecular recognition; self-assembly; self-organization; and chemical adaptation and evolution. We have already considered the first two. Let us now focus on self-organization. Lehn (2002) defined self-organization as the ‘spontaneous but information-directed generation of organized functional structures in equilibrium conditions’. The necessary information (‘coding’) for self-organization is contained in the molecular-recognition and self-assembly proclivities of the component molecules. This coding also determines how the self-assembled edifice self-organizes into a functional structure in equilibrium. For a recent survey of the various types of coding for self-organization, see my book Smart Structures: Blurring the Distinction between the Living and the Nonliving (2007). Any little lights starting to flicker now in that brain of yours?