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LIT-1148: Functional information and the emergence of biocomplexity

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StatusActive — read 2026-10-29 (NOTE-1402) in full, from the publisher's version in PubMed Central (PMC1876432, HTML, equations read from their images); worth reading as the general statement of functional information, −log2 of the fraction of all configurations that reach a stated degree of a stated function, with its stepped curves in random Avida genomes. Read it knowing that the measure is relative to one function and to a uniform weighting of configurations, explicitly not to what selection produces, that it says nothing about history or identity, and that its letter example is off by a bit (37, not 36).
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Cited as “paper” byNOTE-1402 — Hazen, Griffin, Carothers and Szostak — Functional information and the emergence of biocomplexity

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Hazen, R. M., Griffin, P. L., Carothers, J. M. & Szostak, J. W. (2007). PNAS 104(suppl 1):8574–8581.

Read in full on 2026-10-29 (NOTE-1402).

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A10 of the exchange of 2026-10-16, for the college program’s repeated production of good teams (CASE-102). A10: function-relative, and silent on whether successive teams are one individual.

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