Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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2783836 | Comptes Rendus Biologies | 2010 | 10 Pages |
Abstract
The present article discusses the possibility that catalysed chemical networks can evolve. Even simple enzyme-catalysed chemical reactions can display this property. The example studied is that of a two-substrate proteinoid, or enzyme, reaction displaying random binding of its substrates A and B Â . The fundamental property of such a system is to display either emergence or integration depending on the respective values of the probabilities that the enzyme has bound one of its substrate regardless it has bound the other substrate, or, specifically, after it has bound the other substrate. There is emergence of information if p(A)>p(A|B)p(A)>p(AB) and p(B)>p(B|A)p(B)>p(BA). Conversely, if p(A)
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Authors
Jacques Ricard,