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COMMON MOTIFS. "Another characteristic of some natural products: the recurrence of certain structure types. Although we marvel at the seeming endless array of natural product structure types, note should be taken that many structure types, e.g. steroids, are used commonly across life." https://lnkd.in/dEpJBda View in LinkedIn

MODULAR MOLECULAR MACHINE. "Here is the beauty of the transcription-translation machine; it is a modular arrangement of proteins whose core functioning units are repeated over and over again in various transcriptional factors, each of which has specific receptor sites that recognize one another and recognize the steroid-bound protein that initiates the transcription at the specific gene on the DNA." https://lnkd.in/dEpJBda View in LinkedIn

SMALL NUMBERS GIVE RISE TO BIG NUMBERS. "Although the panorama of interactions of natural products with cellular targets is vast, the number of fundamental mechanisms for these interactions is limited." https://lnkd.in/dEpJBda View in LinkedIn

MISSING PATHWAYS. "Cells first appeared on earth over 3.5 billion years ago and remained in the unicellular state for some 2.5 billion years. Much of the cellular machinery of today's prokaryotes is believed to have been in place very early, although we have no direct knowledge of this." https://lnkd.in/dEpJBda View in LinkedIn

MISSING AGENTS. "To further complicate matters, some complex systems appear to require initial conditions or agents that have long disappeared from the system but were necessary for the system to evolve to its present state -- such situations are common for ecosystems." https://lnkd.in/dEpJBda View in LinkedIn

SELF-IMPROVING CODE. "This article describes an experiment to produce an AI program, capable of developing its own programs, using a genetic algorithm implementation with self-modifying and self-improving code." https://lnkd.in/ddNuyJD View in LinkedIn

SPONTANEOUS GENERATION. "While most of the systems described herein were designed by hand, Koza showed that self-replicating LISP programs can spontaneously emerge. In his experiment, programs were randomly created from a number of (hand-designed) basic components, or functions." https://lnkd.in/dn83zJW View in LinkedIn

CODE AUTOMATA. "Is it possible for a computer program to write its own programs? Could human software developers be replaced one day by the very computers that they master? Just like the farmer, the assembly line worker, and the telephone operator, could software developers be next? While this kind of idea seems far-fetched, it may actually be closer than we think." https://lnkd.in/ddNuyJD View in LinkedIn

THE NEXT STRING quotes an interesting article about self-modifying computer code, written by Kory Becker, a software developer, an architect, and entrepreneur. https://lnkd.in/duGaB2D View in LinkedIn

PRIMAL VIRTUAL SOUP. "The objects are like DNA's codons...Codons are sequences of three nucleotides in a string of genetic code; the portion of DNA that makes up a gene is much longer. Genes provide a blueprint for making a specific protein. Each codon specifies a particular amino acid needed for that protein. The virtual objects assemble into patterns similar to the way codons make up strands of DNA or RNA." https://lnkd.in/d8KYVgC View in LinkedIn