<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
				
				<p> The aim of the paper is twofold. First, it presents the fundamental ideas and results of the “metabiology” created by Gregory Chaitin. Second, it shows why metabiology ultimately fails as a candidate for being a proper mathematical model for the theory of evolution by natural selection. Because of genocentric reductionism and biological oversimplifications, metabiology should be perceived rather as an expression of the philosophical worldview of it’s author.</p>
			</abstract>

The aim of the paper is twofold. First, it presents the fundamental ideas and results of the “metabiology” created by Gregory Chaitin. Second, it shows why metabiology ultimately fails as a candidate for being a proper mathematical model for the theory of evolution by natural selection. Because of genocentric reductionism and biological oversimplifications, metabiology should be perceived rather as an expression of the philosophical worldview of it’s author.

Turing Machines and Evolution. A Critique of Gregory Chaitin’s Metabiology

Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology in Warsaw,

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

{"article-title":"Turing Machines and Evolution. A Critique of Gregory Chaitin\u2019s Metabiology"}

The aim of the paper is twofold. First, it presents the fundamental ideas and results of the “metabiology” created by Gregory Chaitin. Second, it shows why...

Turing Machines and Evolution. A Critique of Gregory Chaitin’s Metabiology

Online veröffentlicht: 16. März 2017

Seitenbereich: 133 - 150

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/slgr-2016-0059

Schlüsselwörter
Gregory Chaitin, metabiology, genocentrism

© Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Turing Machines and Evolution. A Critique of Gregory Chaitin’s Metabiology

Online veröffentlicht: 16. März 2017

Seitenbereich: 133 - 150

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/slgr-2016-0059

SchlüsselwörterGregory Chaitin, metabiology, genocentrism

© Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Schlüsselwörter
Gregory Chaitin, metabiology, genocentrism