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Mind and Cosmos as Throughput Systems: A Convergence Through the Throughput Model

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper advances a conceptual and mathematical foundations approach by applying the throughput model (TPM) to cosmic phenomena, reframing the universe as an extended information processing system. TPM's four stages, Perception, Information, Judgement and Decision Choice, are reformulated in explicit information‐theoretic and dynamical ...
Waymond Rodgers
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Early evolution of purple retinal pigments on Earth and implications for exoplanet biosignatures

, 2018
We propose that retinal-based phototrophy arose early in the evolution of life on Earth, profoundly impacting the development of photosynthesis and creating implications for the search for life beyond our planet.
DasSarma, Shiladitya, Schwieterman, Edward W.   +1 more
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Microbial Endolithic Community at Meteor Crater

Meteoritics &Planetary Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Postimpact recovery and evolution in response to climate changes produced a modern ecosystem at Meteor Crater dominated by a grassland and woodland of piñon and juniper, which has been used to evaluate floral and megafaunal consequences of impact cratering during the Phanerozoic Eon of complex life.
David A. Kring, Charles S. Cockell
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Astrobiological Complexity with Probabilistic Cellular Automata

, 2012
Search for extraterrestrial life and intelligence constitutes one of the major endeavors in science, but has yet been quantitatively modeled only rarely and in a cursory and superficial fashion.
A Ilachinski, AA Pavlov, AH Knoll, AJ Wood, AR Wallace, B Carter, B Carter, B Vukotić, B Vukotić, Branislav Vukotić, BS Soares-Filho, C Adami, C Cotta, C Maccone, C Maccone, C Sagan, C Walters, CF Chyba, CG Langton, CH Bennett, CH Lineweaver, CH Lineweaver, CH Lineweaver, CS Cockell, CS Cockell, CS Cockell, D Grinspoon, DC Dennett, DH Forgan, DJ Asher, DJ Des Marais, DM Raup, DR Gies, DW McShea, EM Jones, EM Leitch, F Drake, FJ Dyson, G Gonzalez, G Grinstein, G Radick, GA Landis, GD Brin, GG Simpson, GV Levin, HJ Rocha-Pinto, HJ Rocha-Pinto, I Fry, J Binney, J Matese, J Pérez-Mercader, JA Ball, JJ Matese, K Sterelny, KS Carslaw, M Batty, M Gardner, MAC Perryman, MD Hill, Milan M. Ćirković, MJ Burchell, MJ Burchell, MJ Fogg, MJ Rees, MK Wallis, MK Wallis, MM Ćirković, MM Ćirković, MM Ćirković, MM Ćirković, N Duric, NK Petersen, NS Kardashev, P Bak, P Ward, PCW Davies, PMC Oliveira de, R Bjørk, R Dawkins, RA Carrigan, RA Freitas Jr, RD Smith, S Conway Morris, S Conway Morris, S Dick, S Hoya White, S Webb, S Wolfram, S Wolfram, SG Wallenhorst, SJ Dick, SJ Gould, SJ Gould, SJ Gould, SVM Clube, V Clube, W Borkowski, WI Newman, WM Napier, WM Napier   +99 more
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Microbially generated ferruginous crusts: A potential biosignature of continental input in coastal settings

Sedimentology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Thin ferruginous sandy crusts are common on top of sandstone beds in the Early Permian post‐glacial deposits of the Paraná Basin in southern Brazil. These crusts usually preserve wrinkle structures, suggesting that they might be a product of microbial mediation.
Patrícia Weschenfelder, Renata Guimarães Netto, Alisson Klayton Martins   +2 more
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Astrobiology: Science Learning Activities for Afterschool [PDF]

, 2006
This product consists of eight astrobiology after-school activities, each of which may be completed in about one hour. The science of astrobiology is concerned with the question of whether or not life exists on other planets.

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The Origin of Life from Primordial Planets

, 2010
The origin of life and the origin of the universe are among the most important problems of science and they might be inextricably linked. Hydro-gravitational-dynamics (HGD) cosmology predicts hydrogen-helium gas planets in clumps as the dark matter of ...
Gibson, Carl H., Schild, Rudolph E., Wickramasinghe, N. C.   +2 more
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Philosophical Aspects of Astrobiology Revisited

Philosophies, 2021
Given the idea that Life as we know it is nothing but a special form of a generically underlying dynamical structure within the physical Universe, we try to introduce a concept of Life that is not only derived from first principles of fundamental physics,
Rainer E. Zimmermann
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ASTROBIOLOGY AND ASTROCHRISTOLOGY

Zygon, 2016
Astrochristology, as a subfield within the more comprehensive astrotheology, speculates on the implications of what astrobiology and related space sciences learn about our future space neighbors.
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A Stochastic Process Approach of the Drake Equation Parameters

, 2011
The number N of detectable (i.e. communicating) extraterrestrial civilizations in the Milky Way galaxy is usually done by using the Drake equation. This equation was established in 1961 by Frank Drake and was the first step to quantifying the SETI field.
Annis, Capiński, Cirkovic, Drake, Foata, Glade, Nicolas Glade, Olivier Bastien, Pascal Ballet, Reber, Shermer, Shklovsky, Skorokhod, Wilson   +13 more
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