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    From “the dialectics of nature” to the inorganic gene

    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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    Item Type: Article
    Additional Information: The original publication is available at http://www.springerlink.com
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Natural Sciences
    Depositing User: Sandra Plummer
    Date Deposited: 19 Dec 2005
    Last Modified: 02 Aug 2023 16:46
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/288

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