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To overcome what I believed to be the shortcomings of the Anderson

model of the origin of biological information (as viewed from the perspec-

tive of the matter–symbol complementarity), I modified his model by

utilizing not only the sequence information (as Anderson did), but also the

conformational energy associated with frustrations (which he ignored).

This is tantamount to assuming that the frustrations embedded in RNA

molecules are conformons (sequence-specific conformational strains) or

SIDD’s of Benham [79–81]. The resulting conformon-based model of

the origin of biological information (see Figure 4.10) was named “the

Princetonator” to indicate the facts that (i) it is an example of self-

organizing chemical reaction–diffusion systems (as indicated by the

suffix, ator) and (ii) it is an extended version of the model of the origin

of biological information originally developed by Anderson and his group

Figure 4.10 A conformon-based model of the origin of self-replicating molecular sys-

tems that is constructed on the basis of the assumption that frustrations embedded in RNA

carry both sequence information and mechanical energy and hence are examples of con-

formons [65]. Reproduced from [7].

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