Mackay, Alan L. (1999) From “the dialectics of nature” to the inorganic gene. Foundations of Chemistry 1 (1), pp. 43-56. ISSN 1386-4238.
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Abstract
The concept of projection from one space to another, with a consequent loss of information, can be seen in the relationships of gene to protein and language description to real situation. Such a transformation can only be reversed if extra external information is re-supplied. The genetic algorithm embodying this idea is now used in applied mathematics for exploring a configuration space. Such a dialectic – transformation back and forth between two kinds of description – extends the traditional Hegelian concept used by Engels and others of change as resulting from a resolution of the conflict of two opposing tendencies and provides for evolution of the joint system.
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| Additional Information: | The original publication is available at http://www.springerlink.com |
| School or Research Centre: | Birkbeck Schools and Research Centres > School of Science > Biological Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Sandra Plummer |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Dec 2005 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Apr 2013 12:32 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/288 |
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