Who wrote the code of life?
"The discovery of the DNA code has transformed our scientific understanding of the nature of the living cell. We now know that at the heart of life is a language, a code, a set of instructions.
As Lila Gatlin puts it, “life may be defined operationally as an informationprocessing system.”
And Jeremy Campbell writes:
'Evidently nature can no longer be seen as matter and energy alone. Nor can all her secrets be unlocked with the keys of chemistry and physics.… A third component is needed for any explanation of the world that claims to be complete. To the powerful theories of chemistry and physics must be added a late arrival: a theory of information. Nature must be interpreted as matter, energy, and information.'
The question of life’s origin must likewise be recast to take account of these findings. The origin of life is now in large measure the origin of information.
As Bernd-Olaf Kuppers writes, “The origin of life is clearly basically equivalent to the problem of the origin of biological information.”
(The Soul of Science)