[FRIAM] Eric Smith's mainstream Wired article on biological thermodynamics and evolution

[Eric Smith]

Thanks Steve,

I didn't know that this existed.  It is really hopeful that the author
of the series puts Guy's work in the same frame as Carl Woese's,
probably without realizing that I am part of collaborations with both
of them.  That suggests that the idea is taking on some recognizable
coherence of its own, because the way Carl says these things is rather
drastically different than the way Guy does, and Carl considers a
rather different set of questions to be primary.  However, I also
believe it is correct to see the two representations as reflecting the
same essential missing parts in current biological theory (which parts
are also a missing part of current physical theory). So the author must
be seeing the idea through its very different set of representations.

Best,

Eric