Molecular autonomous agents

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 07 May 2003 English Publisher:The Royal SocietyJournal:Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, volume 361, pages 1,089-1,099 (issn: 1364-503X, eissn: 1471-2962,

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Authors: Stuart, Kauffman;

doi: 10.1098/rsta.2003.1186

pmid: 12816601

Molecular autonomous agents

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Abstract

I consider an autonomous agent to be a physical system able to act on its own behalf, such as a bacterium swimming up a glucose gradient. I tentatively define an autonomous agent to be a system capable of self-reproduction and at least capable of performing one thermodynamic work cycle. I give a hypothetical chemical example. I then explore the increasingly odd implications of this definition.

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Santa Fe Institute
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Feedback, Physiological, Models, Molecular, Energy Transfer, Models, Chemical, Molecular Motor Proteins, Homeostasis, Thermodynamics, DNA, Feedback

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