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چکیده‌هایِ گزیده‌ای از کتاب:

PART II
A BRIEF HISTORY OF ORGANIC LIFE
Chapter Seventeen

THE COSMIC CONTEXT

نقل قول:

The atom is a pattern, and the molecule is a pattern, and the crystal is a pattern;
but the stone, although it is made up of these patterns, is just a mere confusion. . . .
—Aldous Huxley

One of the most influential science books of the twentieth century was an
ultra-slim volume, written by the physicist Erwin Schrödinger, called What Is Life?
Published in 1944, it helped inspire James Watson and Francis Crick, among other future
eminences, to study life’s hereditary material.[/blue]
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ALLIANCE IN THE PRIMORDIAL SOUP
How did life begin? Beats me. But from the beginning, one of its driving forces
was non-zero-sum logic.
Consider the two genes that linked up to form the world’s first chromosome. (I’m
using “chromosome” loosely, to mean any strand of genes, not just the neatly packaged
strands that evolved in the kinds of cells that constitute plants and animals.) What were
the genes’ functions? Again: I have no idea (except that they must have been able to
replicate). But this much is clear: by virtue of now being in the same boat, they had a
highly non-zero-sum relationship. By and large, what was conducive to the survival and
replication of one was conducive to the survival and replication of the other. So whatever
functions they did perform—building protective insulation, say—they were best advised
to cooperate, to unite in pursuit of their common goal, dividing labor synergistically.

بخش یکم [COLOR=#436DF0]مایْگان[sup][aname="rpaba16333c335745f4874de70464b8aca6"][[/aname][anchor="paba16333c335745f4874de70464b8aca6"]1][/anchor][/sup] نیز به آینده‌نگری درباره‌یِ سرنوشت و بهزیستیِ[sup][aname="rpaac7186b110364b64a03c86c5b53d0411"][[/aname][anchor="paac7186b110364b64a03c86c5b53d0411"]2][/anchor][/sup] هومنی[sup][aname="rpab1ae3669ef10431cadb86a142ed87c5c"][[/aname][anchor="pab1ae3669ef10431cadb86a142ed87c5c"]3][/anchor][/sup] از دیدگاه‌هایِ ورتای[sup][aname="rpa0dae503acfb0402ea4a0f7213885c53f"][[/aname][anchor="pa0dae503acfb0402ea4a0f7213885c53f"]4][/anchor][/sup] (اقتصادی, حریم شخصی, ...) میپردازد که پیوند تنگاتنگی هم با این جستار خودمان دارد: پیشرفت روزافزون فندآوری[sup][aname="rpaada2a897c4214f5e9f432ecc3835eac4"][[/aname][anchor="paada2a897c4214f5e9f432ecc3835eac4"]5][/anchor][/sup]: به کجا می‌رویم؟

خواندن هر دو بخش آن خوشی‌آور است, ولی از بخش دوم خواندن به نگر من تیلِ[sup][aname="rpa37e8f8dcccdf4937957e4ed04938a623"][[/aname][anchor="pa37e8f8dcccdf4937957e4ed04938a623"]6][/anchor][/sup] آغاز بهتری خواهد بود.





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