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2020 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

1. On the Verge of Life: Looking for a New Scientific Paradigm

Author : Arturo Carsetti

Published in: Metabiology

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

From a general point of view, at the level of life we are constantly faced with an inner self-modulation of a very peculiar coupled system: the alternative splicing represents only one of the essential tools relative to the self-organization of the channel. In this sense, the dialectics between coder and ruler really plays a fundamental role: it is in view of a continuous synthesis of new proteins and new structures as well as of the accomplishment, each time, of a correct assimilation process. In any case, the problem is to establish, every time, a correct relationship between invariance and morphogenesis. Life is hiding in the creative equilibrium at stake, a balance that must be constantly renewed on pain of dissipating life itself. Meaning and incompressibility are the two actors who tread the scene of life determining each time the due balance in accordance with an evolution which concerns the surfacing of the natural world but in the conditions of a continuous (and “intended”) metamorphosis.

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Metadata
Title
On the Verge of Life: Looking for a New Scientific Paradigm
Author
Arturo Carsetti
Copyright Year
2020
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32718-7_1

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