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enneff

It doesn’t seem opaque to me and I’m no scientist. Pretty clearly expressed imo.

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So you didn't look any of these terms up? Would love an explanation of

* Kantian Wholes

* Catalytic Closure

* Constraint Closure

* Spatial Closure

* a first-order phase transition to molecular reproduction

* phylogeny of metabolisms

* template replication

Thanks

Read the article ! As it says : "We explain these concepts below."

They were explained clearly in the article I found. Although those last three are self-explanatory if you know what the individual words mean, they’re in the dictionary.

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