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The concept of projection from one space to another, with a consequent loss of information, can be seen in the relationships of gene to protein and language description to real situation. Such a transformation can only be reversed if extra external information is re-supplied. The genetic algorithm embodying this idea is now used in applied mathematics for exploring a configuration space. Such a dialectic – transformation back and forth between two kinds of description – extends the traditional Hegelian concept used by Engels and others of change as resulting from a resolution of the conflict of two opposing tendencies and provides for evolution of the joint system.
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Mackay, A.L. From “The Dialectics of Nature” to the Inorganic Gene. Foundations of Chemistry 1, 43–56 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009924107380
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009924107380