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THE TURING TEST. "It is proposed that a machine may be deemed intelligent, if it can act in such a manner that a human cannot distinguish the machine from another human merely by asking questions via a mechanical link." https://lnkd.in/dA4he3P View in LinkedIn

OPEN LETTER. "Hundreds of leading scientists and technologists have joined Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk in warning of the potential dangers of sophisticated artificial intelligence, signing an open letter calling for research on how to avoid harming humanity." https://lnkd.in/dbwFApp View in LinkedIn

CODE AGENTS ARE DNA PARASITES. “Therefore I suppose that changes in the genetic code, which are of evolutionary relevance, are rather the result of fine-tuned processes by a large network of mobile genetic elements, persistent viruses, its defectives and other genetic parasites that alter DNA sequences.” https://lnkd.in/dWwkKpD View in LinkedIn

NATURAL CODES NEED AGENTS. “It is empirically evident that no natural language speaks itself as no natural code codes itself. It always requires living agents that share a competence to generate and interpret these natural codes.” https://lnkd.in/dWwkKpD View in LinkedIn

NATURAL CODE MEANING IS CONTEXTUAL. “Meaning in natural languages/codes and communication is context dependent. In contrast, artificial formalizable (algorithm based) languages employ a “universal“ syntax in order to determine meaning independent of the contextual circumstances.” https://lnkd.in/dWwkKpD View in LinkedIn

DNA AS NATURAL CODE. “From biological molecules to genetic content operators. Erwin Schrödinger‘s question “What is life?” received the answer for decades of “physics + chemistry”. The concepts of Alain Turing and John von Neumann introduced a third term: “information”. This led to the understanding of nucleic acid sequences as a natural code.” https://lnkd.in/dWwkKpD View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE explores an interesting article by Günther Witzany on DNA as a habitat for retroviruses, and its evolutionary consequences, titled Pragmatic turn in biology: From biological molecules to genetic content operators. Witzany, a philosopher, collaborated with virologist Luis Villarreal; in the words of Villarreal: “One of the most fundamental concepts to emerge for me in the last five years has come from talking to the philosopher Günther Witzany about the history of science and language.“ https://lnkd.in/dp4diBc View in LinkedIn