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Comment author: timtyler 18 April 2009 09:18:26PM 0 points [-]

There's a few of us. My pages on the topic:

http://originoflife.net/gods_utility_function/ http://originoflife.net/bright_light/

See also:

http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Life/Signed_Articles/John_Whitfield

The main recent breakthrough of our understanding in this areas is down to Dewar - and the basic idea goes back at least to Lotka, from 1922.