linkedin post 2019-10-22 04:07:13

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SYNTHETIC LIFE. ""Every computer-based self-replicating program system...provides a new instance of evolution." https://lnkd.in/dJG7PFu Macroscopic, spatio-temporal, cooperative structures spontaneously emerge in these self- programming system. They emerge in a similar way as macroscopic dissipative structures do in physico-chemical systems.(1991). https://lnkd.in/dWGaP8C View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2019-10-22 04:03:33

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IN SILICO EVOLUTION. “We propose a novel class of formal dynamical systems, which are referred to as self-programming or constructive. We believe that these systems form natural models for functional self-organization in prebiotic and proto-biological systems. We shall use the computer as a ''test-tube'' to follow the dynamics of these systems and in particular investigate their emergent functional properties." (1991). https://lnkd.in/dWGaP8C View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2019-10-22 03:59:05

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NATURAL SELECTION ALGORITHM. "Almost twenty years ago...John Holland minted "the genetic algorithm", a means by which the rules of natural reproduction, particularly natural selection, could be used to literally evolve computer programs. The results can be viewed as organisms." https://lnkd.in/dJpC_P3 View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2019-10-22 03:56:38

linkedin post 2019-10-22 03:56:38

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BIO-PAPARAZZI. “The vast amounts of personal data available might catalyse the emergence of "bio-paparazzi", who would swoop on restaurants and hotels to source samples of celebrity DNA, or search through archived medical or laboratory samples.” http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2013/06/feature-bio-crime/the-bio-crime-prophecy View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2019-10-24 04:48:04

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DEBATE. “The Strange, Disembodied Life of Digital Organisms.The article dealt with the effort to model living, evolving organisms as little bits of supposedly living, evolving computer code, and was in part a critique of an article that appeared in the leading scientific journal, Nature, in May 2003." Read the ensuing firestorm of criticism. https://lnkd.in/diF4rQP View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2019-10-23 05:36:32

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PRIMORDIAL DIGITAL SOUP. “What would happen, McCaskill had wondered, if one made a soup of Turing machines and let them collide; one collision partner would act as the machine, and the other partner in the collision would act as the input tape. The soup of programs would act on itself, rewriting each other's programs until... Until what? Well, it didn't work. Many Turing machine programs are able to enter infinite loop and "hang." http://www.panspermia.org/computrs.htm View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2019-10-23 05:33:28

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ORIGINS. “Any theory holding that life originates on Earth de novo from nonliving chemicals has problems for which computers provide a good metaphor. The problems are in two categories, hardware and software. For life as for computers, both are required, together. After eukaryotic cellular life has become established, in this metaphor, the machinery for creating new biological hardware is in place, and the remaining problem is one of software only. How does the genetic programming for new evolutionary features get written and installed?” http://www.panspermia.org/computrs.htm View in LinkedIn
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