Brave Genius: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize (2013) by Sean Carroll

Now that I have walked the dog, delivered supplies to my disabled daughter, admired the great job she did of cleaning her apartment in time for an inspection, hiked 10k on muddy terrain, and showered, I am returning to reading Brave Genius: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize (2013) by Sean Carroll. I stumbled upon this biography about Albert Camus, Jacques Monod, and their friendship after reading nearly all of Camus’ books and a book titled Chance and Necessity (1970) by Jacques Monod about how life on Earth may have arisen. Camus and Monod were both winners of Nobel Prizes. Sean Carroll quotes Albert Camus In the early pages of the biography: “I have known only one true genius: Jacques Monod.” Camus was modest. My belief is that Camus and Monod were both geniuses.

#Books #Bookstodon #Camus #Monod

97yo genie #HHPattee published a chapter just few months ago in #OpenSemiotics vol4, in which expands & pushes his theoretical argumentation framework, embracing the recent biology research on #abiogenesis & spontaneous #folding

top quote:

» #RNATieClub did not discover the “mechanism” of the code because there was no #mechanism
The code is symbolic or “chemically gratuitous” in #Monod words
There was nothing to discover from laws or logical thinking «

https://www.academia.edu/114451075/Symbol_Grounding_by_Folding_The_Primary_Biosemiosis

#biosemiotics