Sasha (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} alexanderwait) wrote, |
Re: Dimensionality and universality
"While Kauffman talks of abstract spaces, not real-life euclidean, that's not too bad! Kauffman claims that life started as an "autocatalytic process", a certain web of chemical reactions in the primordial soup. Each cell then get to symbolise a certain molecule and the flow of nutrients could symbolise the relative amounts of molecules as one is spent to produce another. When it's all jumbled in a soup anyway, the elements exact position in the bowl is secondary."
There have been lots of attempts to build evolving, artificial worlds with "a certain web of chemical reactions." But these webs are very hard to analyze. It's much simpler, frankly, to use 3D euclidian space.
