linkedin post 2019-05-16 04:29:41

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PREBIOTIC SOUP. "The analogy with biological organisms is highly tenuous—as Edge readers will be flooding your inbox to point out. It's just the beginnings of something, in a faintly metazoan sense. The operating system used to be the system that operated a computer. Now it is becoming something else." https://lnkd.in/dVwXzv5 View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2019-05-14 05:30:33

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LARGE AND BLURRING BORDERLINE. "The fact that all the dominant modern theories consider that life progressively emerged from some kind of proto-organisms, strongly grounds the hypothesis of the existence of a large and blurring borderline between living and non-living, were the inert progressively fades into the living." https://lnkd.in/dEj5vVD View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2019-05-16 04:23:01

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EXPANDING UNIVERSE. "We're missing a tremendous opportunity. We're asleep at the switch because it's not a metaphor. In 1945 we actually did create a new universe. This is a universe of numbers with a life of their own, that we only see in terms of what those numbers can do for us...there really is a universe of self-reproducing digital code. When I last checked, it was growing by five trillion bits per second. And that's not just a metaphor for something else. It actually is. It's a physical reality." https://lnkd.in/dVwXzv5 View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2019-05-16 04:19:55

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DIGITAL UNIVERSE. "What we're missing now, on another level, is not just biology, but cosmology. People treat the digital universe as some sort of metaphor, just a cute word for all these products. The universe of Apple, the universe of Google, the universe of Facebook, that these collectively constitute the digital universe, and we can only see it in human terms and what does this do for us?" https://lnkd.in/dVwXzv5 View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2019-05-16 04:17:15

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ROUGH DIAMOND. "Ludwig managed a remarkable intellectual shift. He elevated the computer virus from the digital equivalent of a can of spray paint to an object capable of perhaps infinite variations and almost lifelike behavior. He transformed a tool of vandals into a field of scientific study by emphasizing a computer virus' biological affinity." (Graffiti malware to academic artificial life). https://lnkd.in/edrARjk View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2019-05-15 04:29:43

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DIGITAL INFORMS BIOLOGY. "Running his beloved viruses through assorted experimental hoops and mazes, Ludwig followed them to the conclusion that Darwinian evolutionary mechanisms alone are just not mathematically fertile enough to have created and shaped life as we know it." https://lnkd.in/edrARjk View in LinkedIn
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