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AUTO-ANALYSIS. "But no brain on Earth is yet close to knowing what brains do in order to achieve any of that functionality. The enterprise of achieving it artificially — the field of ‘artificial general intelligence’ or AGI — has made no progress whatever during the entire six decades of its existence." https://lnkd.in/dN7u2Qg View in LinkedIn

MINERALIZATION AND DIVERSITY. “There are two things that help define the Cambrian explosion. The first is the increase in animal diversity; the second is the rise of biomineralization—the building of shells and skeletons. Those hard parts made the preservation of fossils in the rock record a possibility. That adds to the mystery. Did this newly evolved armor and structure lead to some sort of arms race driving evolution into a higher gear.” https://lnkd.in/dtYSB5v View in LinkedIn

HUMAN BRAIN. "It is uncontroversial that the human brain has capabilities that are, in some respects, far superior to those of all other known objects in the cosmos. It is the only kind of object capable of understanding that the cosmos is even there, or why there are infinitely many prime numbers, or that apples fall because of the curvature of space-time, or that obeying its own inborn instincts can be morally wrong, or that it itself exists. Nor are its unique abilities confined to such cerebral matters." (Kurzweil). https://lnkd.in/dN7u2Qg View in LinkedIn

NON-BIOLOGICAL INTELLIGENCE. "Kurzweil believes that within a quarter century, non-biological intelligence will match the range and subtlety of human intelligence. It will then soar past it because of the continuing acceleration of information-based technologies, as well as the ability of machines to instantly share their knowledge." https://lnkd.in/dTveM5M View in LinkedIn

EPOCH 5. "According to Kurzweil, we are entering Epoch 5 with an accelerating rate of change. The major event of this merger of technology and human intelligence will be the emergence of a “technological singularity”." https://lnkd.in/dTveM5M View in LinkedIn

MARK BEDAU set a number of challenges to the emerging artificial life community. These included: "Generate a molecular proto-organism in vitro. Achieve the transition to life in an artificial chemistry in silico. Determine whether fundamentally novel living organizations can exist?" https://lnkd.in/dsMZPii View in LinkedIn

ANAPHYLAXIS INNOVATION. StellaPharma to Develop Epinephrine Nasal Spray Product. https://lnkd.in/duy7NeV View in LinkedIn

PARALLEL to artificial life investigations, in silico artificial chemistry has opened up a new world of possibilities of looking at molecular evolution and the origin of life. Provocative and interesting. View in LinkedIn

LANGUAGE OF MATERIALS. "We believe it's now possible to program nearly every material to change shape and properties," says Skylar Tibbits, director of MIT’s Self-Assembly Laboratory. "Code", he says, will become the "language of materials" in the same way it is the language of machines today." https://lnkd.in/d6YRRJH View in LinkedIn

INTRINSIC PROPERTIES. "Plants moving toward the sun, proteins folding into complex structures in response to their surroundings, molecules stacking themselves together to form a crystal. No external machinery directs these functions. Instead, the structure and shape is embedded in the material properties themselves—a wonder of the natural world." https://lnkd.in/d6YRRJH View in LinkedIn