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PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON SERIES A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES
Volume 361, Issue 1807, Pages 1089-1099Publisher
ROYAL SOC LONDON
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2003.1186
Keywords
molecular autonomous agent; non-equilibrium chemical systems; life; the adjacent possible; Maxwell's demon; non-pre-stateability of the biosphere
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I consider an autonomous agent to be a physical system able to act on its own behalf, such as a bacterium swimming up a glucose gradient. I tentatively define an autonomous agent to be a system capable of self-reproduction and at least capable of performing one thermodynamic work cycle. I give a hypothetical chemical example. I then explore the increasingly odd implications of this definition.
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