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BOLT-ON ENTITIES. "Speakeasy’s approach to accomplishing the recombinant computing vision is to cast all devices and services on the network as “components” that implement a small, fixed set of programmatic interfaces which allow them to be “snapped together” at runtime by users." https://lnkd.in/drEH-9B View in LinkedIn

"LIFE is a pattern in space-time rather than a specific material object. Self-reproduction, in itself or in a related organism. Information storage of a self-representation. A metabolism that converts matter/energy. Functional interactions with the environment. Interdependence of parts. Stability under perturbations of the environment. The ability to evolve. Growth or expansion." https://lnkd.in/eCG7b3z View in LinkedIn

LIMITED EXPERIENCE. "This paper presents a case for “recombinant computing”—a set of common interaction patterns that leverage mobile code to allow rich interactions among computational entities with only limited a priori knowledge of one another." https://lnkd.in/dJu-E5i View in LinkedIn

CRITERIA FOR LIVING? Code meets many of the general criteria for defining life forms. https://lnkd.in/d67aD-d View in LinkedIn

ARCHITECTURE. "A mobile code-based architecture would enable Word to not only detect that a new printer is available, but determine what code is needed to use it, and then deliver that needed code on demand." https://lnkd.in/dqK2a6W View in LinkedIn

SIMPLER IS FASTER. "Organisms that reproduce more quickly and plentifully than their competitors have an evolutionary advantage. Consequently, organisms can evolve to become simpler and thus multiply faster and produce more offspring, as they require fewer resources to reproduce." https://lnkd.in/dTDx7g6 View in LinkedIn

SIMPLICITY NOT SELECTED. "In part, the answer must be that most processes in eukaryotes generally evolve toward complexity, presumably because complexity provides more regulatory opportunities and perhaps also because there is no selective pressure to enforce simplicity." Not always true: genetic streamlining is very real in parasites that outsource their genomes to grow. https://lnkd.in/d8Qr_bk View in LinkedIn

CHROMOSOMES. The diploid number of chromosomes varies from 2 in Jack jumper ants to nearly 8,000 in ciliated protozoa. The average is between 100-200. https://lnkd.in/d58T4mt View in LinkedIn

GENES ASSEMBLE IN CHROMOSOMES. "Each chromosome is made of protein and a single molecule of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)." Chromosomes are made of genes. Humans have 26 pairs of chromosomes, or 52 total. Each pair is unique, so 156 billion unique human chromosomes alone." https://lnkd.in/dX-cKKe View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE continues from last weekend and concludes on the theme of biological simplicity, how it arose, and its relationship to the abundant biological complexity that we see everywhere. View in LinkedIn