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concept:aperiodic-solid-aperiodic-crystalAperiodic Solid (Aperiodic Crystal)
Schrödinger's hypothesized structure for the gene/chromosome: a non-repeating arrangement of atoms allowing vast information storage.
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- Erwin Schrödingerintroduces
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- Schrödinger argues that non-repeating molecular structure (aperiodic solid) allows information density far exceeding periodic/crystalline alternatives.
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- Schrödinger's hypothesis about the physical nature of the hereditary substance.
- Geneassociated_withUnit of heredity, hypothesized as a huge aperiodic molecule capable of isomeric quantum jumps (mutations).
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- Pure functional language with compiler-directed parallelism; Linda authors compare it on DNA sequence similarity computation.
- A non-regular geometric framework that brings coherent order to built form, emerging naturally from a living process.
- The technique of drawing a freehand grid with differentiated spacing — thick and thin bands in both directions — to fit structure organically to conceived spaces; a sharpening process applied to roughly conceived internal volumes
- Space so positively shaped that it feels almost like a solid, carved volume — the ideal of positive space.
- The exponential growth in combinatorial possibilities with sequence length, allowing vast genetic information storage.
- Conventional brains where neurons maintain relatively fixed positions; a subset of collective intelligences.
- Naturally occurring crystalline alloys with long-range orientational order without translational symmetry, requiring non-local action in assembly; used as evidence that standard local explanations fail
- High entropy state, the natural tendency described by the second law.