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FRAGMENT FROM NATURE continues from last week on this final piece about increasing genetic complexity, or not in nature. The innate world appears to be driven by entropy, the drive towards chaos, lowest energy, greatest stability. In contrast, living things build complexity, higher energy structures, and least stability. Whether there is a trend towards greater genetic complexity and information or not is an interesting question. View in LinkedIn

COULD A STRAND OF INFORMATION called code, a binary data set, ever achieve a critical mass, a higher complexity, or cooperative functionality? Even if it did, we may still not understand what occurred right before our very eyes. View in LinkedIn

UNEXPECTED COMBINATIONS. "A single-celled bacterium is alive, but if you separate the macromolecules that combined to create the bacterium, these units are not alive. Based on our knowledge of macromolecules, we would not have been able to predict that they could combine to form a living organism, nor could we have predicted all of the characteristics of the resulting bacterium." https://lnkd.in/epkJVpt View in LinkedIn

“INATE MOLECULES transitioned into life forms during evolution. Was it a critical mass of such entities? Was it a transformation related to complexity? Was it cooperative functionality? Whatever it was, we have zero understanding of this process despite all the tools at our disposal.” https://lnkd.in/epkJVpt View in LinkedIn

TYPES OF INFORMATION. "Nature is full of hierarchical and symbiotic structures which are optimally designed in all design aspects. Ingenious solutions in nature are transmitted by genetic codes. Human information is not transferable genetically but has to be studied, stored to design codes and transmitted by education." https://lnkd.in/dYdY4x3 View in LinkedIn

THE GREY ZONE. "A recursively self-improving AI could transform itself into a superintelligent machine." https://lnkd.in/dp3ZKye View in LinkedIn

CULTURAL EVOLUTION. "Once culture originates, it has the capacity to evolve on its own, and the past century has shown an explosion of technological culture, including notably the creation of computing machines and complex distributed informational networks connecting them." https://lnkd.in/dsMZPii View in LinkedIn

FINAL ACT. "There's a saying among futurists that a human-equivalent artificial intelligence will be our last invention. After that, AIs will be capable of designing virtually anything on their own — including themselves." https://lnkd.in/dp3ZKye View in LinkedIn

NON-ADAPTIVE EVOLUTION. "Genome complexity is correlated with biological complexity. A recent paper by Michael Lynch proposes that evolution of complex genomic architecture was driven primarily by non-adaptive stochastic forces, rather than by adaptive evolution. A general negative relationship between selection efficiency and genome complexity provides a strong support for this hypothesis." https://lnkd.in/ePaUq-z View in LinkedIn

RULES. “Domain-Specific Languages are about as close as we'll ever get. You will always have to give the computer some rules to work with. But the more those rules are defined in a manner specific to their domain, the less input there will have to be." https://lnkd.in/dsxKTtK View in LinkedIn