How can molecular gene structures preserve detailed specifications across generations despite thermal noise and copying errors?

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• How is it possible for detailed specifications encoded in complex molecules to survive across generations despite constant thermal buffetting and developmental disruption?question0.854
• The number of atoms involved in the responsible gene structure is likely to be very small, yet it displays a most regular and lawful activity with a durability that borders upon the miraculous, remaining unperturbed by the disordering tendency of heat motion for centuries.claim0.798
  Schrödinger's statement of the puzzle that quantum mechanics resolves.
• How can we, from the point of view of statistical physics, reconcile the facts that the gene structure seems to involve only a comparatively small number of atoms and nevertheless displays a most regular and lawful activity with a durability that borders upon the miraculous?question0.778
  The specific puzzle about the stability of the genetic material.
• If the gene is a large molecule with discrete quantum states and high energy barriers between isomeric configurations, then it will exhibit long-term stability and rare spontaneous mutations.hypothesis0.769
  The core predictive hypothesis derived from Delbrück's model.
• The genome does not merely specify chemical structures to be assembled but also specifies complex patterns of interaction between molecular structures required to produce controlled behaviours of the individual organism.claim0.762
  An extension of the genetic code concept: it encodes developmental and behavioural control, not just static form.
• Genetic information must encode not only physical forms but also complex self-modifying control mechanisms for behavior and development.claim0.748
• The genome contains a latent wholeness — capable of generating the wholeness of the organism — which itself evolves through structure-preserving transformations analogous to direct wholeness unfolding.claim0.743
  Alexander's extension of unfolding wholeness to evolutionary processes where the evolving entity is the genetic structure rather than the organism's form directly
• The competency of biological material hides the quality of genomes from selection, putting pressure on competency mechanisms.claim0.736
  Evolutionary ratchet argument for intelligence.