The Capricious Character of Nature

The on-going whole genome sequencing and whole cell assays of metabolites and proteins imply that complex systems could ultimately be mastered by perfecting knowledge into great detail. However, courses of nature are inherently intractable because flows of energy and their driving forces depend on e...

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Autores principales: Keto, Jaana, Annila, Arto
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2012
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Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4187139/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25382121
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/life2010165
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description The on-going whole genome sequencing and whole cell assays of metabolites and proteins imply that complex systems could ultimately be mastered by perfecting knowledge into great detail. However, courses of nature are inherently intractable because flows of energy and their driving forces depend on each other. Thus no data will suffice to predict precisely the outcomes of e.g., engineering experiments. All path-dependent processes, most notably evolution in its entirety, display this capricious character of nature.
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spelling pubmed-41871392014-10-27 The Capricious Character of Nature Keto, Jaana Annila, Arto Life (Basel) Communication The on-going whole genome sequencing and whole cell assays of metabolites and proteins imply that complex systems could ultimately be mastered by perfecting knowledge into great detail. However, courses of nature are inherently intractable because flows of energy and their driving forces depend on each other. Thus no data will suffice to predict precisely the outcomes of e.g., engineering experiments. All path-dependent processes, most notably evolution in its entirety, display this capricious character of nature. MDPI 2012-01-11 /pmc/articles/PMC4187139/ /pubmed/25382121 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/life2010165 Text en © 2012 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
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