Lecturer: Prof. Michael Lachmann
Affiliation: Santa Fe Institute
Abstract:
In my talk I will examine the effects of
selection in systems that do not necessarily
harbour replication. I will show that this
type of selection is very wide spread, and
that it is very similar in nature to Darwinian
selection. This means that some properties
that we usually associate with biological
systems - for example the appearance of
biological function - can be extended
beyond biology.