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Chris Adami of MSU makes similar claims about life: that it is a phase of matter.

So while Cerf and Adami identified interesting quantum processes to describe underlying interactions, the irreversibility still comes from a statistical consideration of the interaction with a macroscopically large system.

I maintain there is a fundamental difference between the Cerf & Adami process (which is really just decoherence) and classical thermodynamic processes.

Before Adami/Hintze paper is was not clear that ZD strategy "did not work out so well".

The recent Adami/Hintze paper that is topic of this article is itself the paper that shows that the ZD strategy is not evolutionarily stable.

By the way, anyone who is new to the whole artificial life area should also take a look at Chris Adami's Avida: video [0], site [1].

The May 2012 Press/Dyson paper was what caused people to question what had been thought settled for 30 years, and Adami/Hintze paper pointed out mistakes/limitations of Press/Dyson's conclusion.

>Thus we stick to the suggestion to measure genetic complexity by the length of functional and non-redundant DNA sequence rather than by total DNA length (Adami, et al.

Before Adami/Hintze paper is was not clear that ZD strategy "did not work out so well".

The recent Adami/Hintze paper that is topic of this article is itself the paper that shows that the ZD strategy is not evolutionarily stable.

By the way, anyone who is new to the whole artificial life area should also take a look at Chris Adami's Avida: video [0], site [1].

The May 2012 Press/Dyson paper was what caused people to question what had been thought settled for 30 years, and Adami/Hintze paper pointed out mistakes/limitations of Press/Dyson's conclusion.