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Populationally generated
boundary conditions
Ecologically
generated
boundary
conditions
Population
Figure 2
The evolutionary system
This open-endedness constitutes the main difference between the concept of
organization based on the principle of nontrivial closure/SM and that of Natu-
ral Selection. This latter, by its nature, tends to generate processes that never
close,
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and, with the invention of the informational organization, this potential
openness of NS may finally unfold.
Therefore, the invention of the basic living organization was qualitatively
different from any other precedent invention in terms of long-term preservation,
admitting ever new increases of complexity. Once the first form of living orga-
nization appears, not only will it be preserved, but it also becomes the condition
of possibility for further and more complex organizational steps. All further
forms of organization that have appeared in the course of evolution not only
have retained the basic organization of early life, but also crucially depend on it
(just think on how bacterial life is the condition of possibility of the emergence
of more complex living systems).
7. CONCLUDING REMARKS
The origin of living organization occurred through a long-term process involving
different steps. During this process each new form of organization erased these
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Although these processes may hit a ceiling, as we have seen for those HAS based on a unique type of
polymer.
