Virgo, Nathaniel. “Conservation Laws and Thermodynamics in Chemical Reaction Networks.” In 人工知能学会全国大会論文集 第 27 回全国大会 (2013) , pp. 4H15-4H15. 一般社団法人 人工知能学会, 2013.
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Many systems, including biological metabolism and prebiotic chemistry, can be modelled using the formalism of chemical reaction networks. An important quetion is, under what circumstances can such systems generate novelty and complexity? We show that when a very simple model of polymer chemistry is held away from thermodynamic equilibrium, autocatalytic cycles emerge, leading to exponential growth. This paves the way toward understanding how complex, self-producing phenomena could emerge in prebiotic chemistry in particular, and non-equilibrium systems in general.