Thermodynamics of life
September 23, 2014 — December 17, 2024
buzzword
compsci
life
statmech
time series
Statistical mechanics of living things.
What is happening in this area, since everyone got tired of hand-waving about “dissipative systems”? Prigogine’s work in that area seems to have sunk into… disregard? Disrepute? Shinier and newer, Jeremy England is hip… others? Michael Wong talks about information processing in cells and the origin of life. Metabolic theories of life seem to be a thing.
1 Dissipative systems
Prigogine’s work is still foundational although not so fashionable AFAICT (Prigogine and Nicolis 1967, 1971; Prigogine 1975).
2 Fluctuation theorems
3 Incoming
Wolpert has something to say of course (Wolpert 2016, 2018)
Podcast: Michael Wong on Information, Function, and the Origin of Life introduces Wong and Prabhu (2023) and Wong et al. (2023)
Popsci. Jeremy England: A new physics theory of life
John Baez and friends’ Entropy and information in biological systems show when Shannon and Boltzmann entropy relate and how that is important in an interesting class of systems:
A workshop! Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics in Biology
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