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THE VISION. "Unleashed from the plodding pace of biological evolution, the children of our minds will be free to grow to confront immense and fundamental challenges in the larger universe. We humans will benefit for a time from their labors, but sooner or later, like natural children, they will seek their own fortunes while we, their aged parents, silently fade away." (Hans Moravec (Mind Children). https://lnkd.in/etiQ6T7 View in LinkedIn

"ARTIFICIAL LIFE imitates traditional biology by trying to recreate some aspects of biological phenomena." https://lnkd.in/eE92tBk View in LinkedIn

TWO WAY. Just as biology informs artificial life, artificial life informs biology. View in LinkedIn

EMERGENCE OF LIFE is an important question that relates to autonomous computer code or DNA equally. View in LinkedIn

ARTIFICIAL LIFE is a topic that resembles the place of viruses and mobile genetic elements in biology: living in some twilight zone between definitions, with a quirky unexpectedness that comes from freaky variety. The real lesson is that human imagination is significantly limited in contrast to undirected variation. Enjoy this ride into the often funny side of evolution. View in LinkedIn

THE ORIGIN OF LIFE, the definition of life, and the separation between biomolecules and a living organism have confounded the most brilliant minds. Concepts of continuums are a compromise. Thus, no surprises, the artificial life scientists, with their evolving code, have poked fun at our inability to decide by being deliberately provocative. And why not? View in LinkedIn

MOLECULAR FITNESS. "It seems that the instability of the transition stems from the “counterattack” of the four-gene RNA-based individuals, which though lacking a better genetic material, did not have to endure a shortage of building blocks for ribozymes." http://bmcevolbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12862-015-0548-1 View in LinkedIn

DISRUPTIVE JUMP. "However, since genetic material carries genetic information, the “source code” of all living activities, it is actually reasonable to question the plausibility of such a “revolutionary” transition." http://bmcevolbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12862-015-0548-1 View in LinkedIn

RNA FIRST WORLD. " The emergence of DNA in the RNA world: an in silico simulation study of genetic takeover. It is now popularly accepted that there was an “RNA world” in early evolution of life. This idea has a direct consequence that later on there should have been a takeover of genetic material – RNA by DNA." http://bmcevolbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12862-015-0548-1 View in LinkedIn

CHROMOSOME ANALOGUES. "We can implement this genetic model of computation by having arrays of bits or characters to represent the chromosomes. Simple bit manipulation operations allow the implementation of crossover, mutation and other operations." http://www6.uniovi.es/ftp/pub/EC/FAQ/www/Q1_1.htm View in LinkedIn