[P2P-F] Fwd: URGENT - Complexity Science at Sydney Uni Wednesday eveningkenneth

Mon Feb 27 10:25:47 CET 2017

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From: Kenneth McLeod <kenneth.mcleod at uts.edu.au>
Date: Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 6:55 AM
Subject: URGENT - Complexity Science at Sydney Uni Wednesday eveningkenneth
To: kenneth.mcleod at uts.edu.au

Anthropocene Transition Project
The Emergence and Evolution of Life Beyond Physics
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Dear ATP participants,

* On Wednesday this week at 6pm one of the world's leading complexity
scholars will speak at Sydney University. *There are only a few places left
for this lecture so if you're interested don't delay.  *Click here to
register now*
<http://whatson.sydney.edu.au/events/published/sydney-ideas-professor-stuart-kauffman>
.

*Professor Stuart Kauffman*
...is one of the most distinguished scholars of complexity and the author
of several acclaimed books, including *The Origins of Order: Self
Organization and Selection in Evolution* (1993 <1993>), *At Home in the
Universe: The Search for Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity* (1995
<1995>), and *Humanity in a Creative Universe* (2016).

[image: Kauffman CMS]

The emergence and evolution of life is based on physics but is beyond
physics. Evolution is an historical process arising from the non-ergodicity
of the universe above the level of atoms. Most complex things will never
exist. Human hearts exist. Prebiotic chemistry saw the evolution of many
organic molecules in complex reaction networks, and the formation of low
energy structures such as membranes. Theory and experiments suggest that
from this, the spontaneous emergence of self reproducing molecular systems
could arise and evolve. Such “collectively autocatalytic systems”
cyclically link non-equilibrium processes whose constrained release of
energy constitutes “work” to construct the same constraints on those
non-equilibrium processes. Cells yoke a set of non-equilibrium processes
and constraints on the energy released as work to build their own
constraints and reproduce.

Such systems are living, and can propagate their organization with
heritable variations, so can be subject to natural selection. In this
evolution, these proto-organisms emerge unprestatably, and afford novel
niches enabling, not causing, further types of proto-organisms to emerge.
With this, unprestatable new functions arise. The ever-changing phase space
of evolution includes these functionalities. Since we cannot prestate these
ever new functionalities, we can write no laws of motion for this
evolution, which is therefor entailed by no laws at all, and thus not
reducible to physics. Beyond entailing law, the evolving biosphere
literally constructs itself and is the most complex system we know in the
universe.
Co-presented by Sydney Ideas
<http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2017/professor_stuart_kauffman.shtml>
with the Centre for Complex Systems <http://sydney.edu.au/complex-systems/>
and the Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science
<http://sydney.edu.au/foundations_of_science/> the University of Sydney
Register here: http://whatson.sydney.edu.au/events/published/sydney-ideas-
professor-stuart-kauffman

All best wishes,  Ken

PS: Here's the link for the project proposal template if you haven't
already shared your ideas for 2017 ATP initiatives:
http://www.123contactform.com/form-2503259/Survey

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