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[Origin and evolution of life and intellect from the point of view of information processing]
Abstract:
Beginning of life and intellect on the Earth is determined by the fact that synthesis of semantic information about algorithms of chemical transformation for appointed classes of chemical compounds is not accompanied by the information synthesis, but is controlled by chance in genetic material. Genetic information as memorizing accidental choice always arises as a result of the environment interaction, when memorizing realization in the form of repeated reproduction occurs on the basis of processes radically different from those which created initial genetic chance. Such stepped synthesis of information has hierarchical character and it is described by entropy of different dimensions. Entropy is determined by conditional probabilities. Therefore as a form of life becomes complicated, the entropy is decreased within the limits of the given hierarchical step. The part of entropy depending on the number of elements of the system (cells, individuals, etc.) always increases in the memorizing process, i. e. life defines the maximum of entropy production (but not the minimum like in nature). This fact settles paradoxes of chance in Darwinism: as a result of entropy decrease within higher hierarchical step the simbiotic processes for more complex forms of life can arise with great probability. For instance, rapidity of evolution of human brain given by supplementary chance in the mechanism of fecundation under the conditions of biochemical pressure of androgenes both, on the brain development and on muscular force at the same time. Synthesis of information in the brain is determined by the same principles, but extremums of the thermo-dynamic potential (their analogues in logic) are based on an arbitrary system of axioms. As a whole life and intellect are not fluctuations pointed against entropy increases, but they arose according to spontaneous process of entropy development.