linkedin post 2019-10-10 04:39:13

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LAMARCKIAN HARDWARE. “Assuming that artificial life forms become dominant in the far future, this transition to Lamarckian evolution of hardware will enact another major change in the global rate of evolution, comparable to the enormous acceleration that occurred with the advent of culture.” https://lnkd.in/dMvAeqz View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2019-10-10 04:43:12

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ARTIFICIAL LIFE FORMS. "At first, they will be quite unsophisticated, simple tools that we have built to satisfy our needs. Ultimately, however, economic and political pressures will drive artificial life forms to greater degrees of sophistication, until their complexity and information processing capabilities are comparable or superior to those of humans. This may engender competition with humans.” https://lnkd.in/dMvAeqz View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2019-10-11 04:11:11

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NO COMPLACENCY. “If we are right the advent of artificial life is the greatest challenge facing humanity, an inevitability that we must shape and set in motion in the proper direction. If the future is to do justice to the nobler attributes of humanity then we must take positive action.” https://lnkd.in/dMvAeqz View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2019-10-11 04:14:37

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DEFINITIONAL TRAP. “The major advantage of looking at life from this perspective is that by recreating life in a different medium, we are not limited to our own system of carbon-based life. Biology is the study of life, but on Earth we only have access to carbon-based life; and trying to define life by examining only carbon-based life is like trying to derive general principles from specific examples.” https://lnkd.in/etiQ6T7 View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2019-10-11 04:17:42

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NEW BIOLOGY. “Building life from its very basic building blocks--the things we know that life requires such as an energy source--might help us in finding out the principles and characteristics of life in general. Thus we can have a broader, more diverse base of information from which we can better understand what life truly is.” https://lnkd.in/etiQ6T7 View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2019-10-11 04:23:57

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FRESH EYES. “In addition to providing new ways to study the biological phenomena associated with life here on Earth, life-as-we-know-it, Artificial Life allows us to extend our studies to the larger domain of "bio-logic" of possible life, life-as-it-could-be. (Chris G. Langton (Artificial Life II).” https://lnkd.in/etiQ6T7 View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2019-10-11 04:25:58

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ANALOGY. “Synthetic chemistry is the ability to create and put together chemical compounds which are not found in nature; it has given us the ability not only better understand the theory of chemical phenomena, but it has also allowed us to create new materials and chemicals which are of great use to industry and technology.” https://lnkd.in/etiQ6T7 View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2019-10-12 04:41:31

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FRAGMENT FROM NATURE contemplates the curious phenomenon of double fertilization in flowering plants, a large group of living creatures. This is a process unlike the reproduction of animals or other plants, and appears to confer no particular competitive advantage. Perhaps it is a pure happenstance of evolution, wrought by pure accident, which survived. But, just like the mating fruit-fly where the female genes become massively lit up in short order, so also, the cross-talk and molecular chatter that accompanies the pollen tube entry is very impressive. Hardly dumb sessile creatures. View in LinkedIn
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