I'm a second-year mathematician, and I've been looking at this for my one non-math module. Here are some comments I can make:
Jeremy England in a 2015 paper ("Dissipative adaptation in driven self-assembly"): > At this point, dissipative adaptation should seem like too simple an idea to be true, not least because the reality is more complicated (even in principle) than the account of things we have managed to give within the confines of this Perspective. For one thing, our dis- cussion has trod rather lightly over the (addressable) issue of rare trajectories that dissipate much less than average, which are known to come to the fore in a confounding way when we try to compute exponential averages like in equation... (read 893 more words →)
I'm a second-year mathematician, and I've been looking at this for my one non-math module. Here are some comments I can make:
Jeremy England in a 2015 paper ("Dissipative adaptation in driven self-assembly"):
> At this point, dissipative adaptation should seem like too simple an
idea to be true, not least because the reality is more complicated
(even in principle) than the account of things we have managed to
give within the confines of this Perspective. For one thing, our dis-
cussion has trod rather lightly over the (addressable) issue of rare
trajectories that dissipate much less than average, which are known
to come to the fore in a confounding way when we try to compute
exponential averages like in equation... (read 893 more words →)