论文标题
生物学：从宇宙学角度来看生物学
Biocosmology: Biology from a cosmological perspective
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论文摘要
宇宙包含存在的一切，包括生命。以及包括生命在内的所有存在，都遵守普遍的物理定律。然后，这些法律是否为生物学现象的完整解释提供了足够的基础？我们讨论是否以及如何修改宇宙学和物理学，以解决与生物学相交时出现的某些问题。我们表明，在某种意义上说，包含生命的宇宙在某种意义上是非近神的，因为绝大多数可能的生物永远不会实现。我们从中指出，宇宙学中的完整解释需要还原主义和功能解释的混合。
The Universe contains everything that exists, including life. And all that exists, including life, obeys universal physical laws. Do those laws then give adequate foundations for a complete explanation of biological phenomena? We discuss whether and how cosmology and physics must be modified to be able to address certain questions which arise at their intersection with biology. We show that a universe that contains life, in the form it has on Earth, is in a certain sense radically non-ergodic, in that the vast majority of possible organisms will never be realized. We argue from this that complete explanations in cosmology require a mixture of reductionist and functional explanations.
