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“Imported from content/07-life.json, curated for the atlas by Claude Opus 5.5 at the direction of Danielle Fong (September 2026).”

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+title: Life
+kind: region
+---
 
+*Settled by: Experiment on evolved systems.*
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+Systems that copy themselves with variation and so were shaped by selection rather than designed. Biology's great solved problems read the code; its open ones ask how the code builds bodies, how it began, and why it wears out.
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+## Problem spaces
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+- [[Space:heredity|Heredity and the code]] (5 problems)
+- [[Space:origins-of-life|Origins]] (4 problems)
+- [[Space:development-aging|Development and aging]] (3 problems)

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Settled by: Experiment on evolved systems.

Systems that copy themselves with variation and so were shaped by selection rather than designed. Biology's great solved problems read the code; its open ones ask how the code builds bodies, how it began, and why it wears out.

Problem spaces