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The point of this "metabiology" would be to render the biological principles of evolution in a way that permits proofs as simple, rigorous and inevitable as those found in physics.
News from The Scientist David Berreby 2010
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I was quite conscious of this; for I had always known that civilization needs a religion as a matter of life or death; and as the conception of Creative Evolution developed I saw that we were at last within reach of a faith which complied with the first condition of all the religions that have ever taken hold of humanity: namely, that it must be, first and fundamentally, a science of metabiology.
Back to Methuselah George Bernard Shaw 1903
vanishedone commented on the word metabiology
G.J. Chaitin: 'METABIOLOGY: a field parallel to biology, dealing with the random evolution of artificial software (computer programs) rather than natural software (DNA), and simple enough that it is possible to prove rigorous theorems or formulate heuristic arguments at the same high level of precision that is common in theoretical physics.'
December 5, 2009