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MOBILE AGENTS. “Such populations determine regulations in many ways and may newly adapt different functions. The use of a natural language or code depends on consortia of living agents, because natural languages and codes function according to rules.” https://lnkd.in/dWwkKpD View in LinkedIn

NEW THINKING. "Now those metaphors and models pervade explanations of how the brain ‘computes’. But these binary abstractions do not capture all the complexities inherent in the brain. So now I see circles before my eyes. The brain has become a digital computer; yet we are still trying to make our machines intelligent. Should those machines be modelled on the brain, given that our models of the brain are performed on such machines? That will probably not be enough." (Google Deepmind). https://lnkd.in/daaAAYt View in LinkedIn

ECOLOGY OF MOBILE ELEMENTS. “Or they interact as suppression-relevant silencers or as infection-derived modular tools of non-coding RNAs that have built consortia of complementary agents that function together such as retrovirus-derived remnants, such as LTRs, non-LTRs, group II introns, rRNAs, tRNAs, spliceosomes, editosomes, and other counterbalancing modules.” https://lnkd.in/dWwkKpD View in LinkedIn

CATCH-22. "I believe that we are in an intellectual cul-de-sac, in which we model brains and computers on each other, and so prevent ourselves from having deep insights that would come with new models. The first step in this back and forth was made by Alan Turing." (Rodney Brooks, Emeritus professor of robotics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)." (Google Deepmind). https://lnkd.in/daaAAYt View in LinkedIn

DNA AS HABITAT. “This change in perspective from molecules to agent-based behaviour will look at interactions of RNA viruses, DNA viruses, RNA-DNA viruses, viral swarms, and sub-viral groups like any ligated RNA stem loop groups that cooperate and coordinate (regulate) within cellular genomes as replication-relevant co-players.” https://lnkd.in/dWwkKpD View in LinkedIn

MEDICAL APPLICATION. “We announced a partnership with the NHS a couple of weeks ago but that was really just to start building a platform that machine learning can be used in. I think the sort of things you’ll see this kind of AI do is medical diagnosis of images and then maybe longitudinal tracking of vital signs or quantified self over time, and helping people have healthier lifestyles. I think that’ll be quite suitable for reinforcement learning.” https://lnkd.in/dT88xiV View in LinkedIn

DNA AS HABITAT. “This change in perspective from molecules to agent-based behaviour will look at interactions of RNA viruses, DNA viruses, RNA-DNA viruses, viral swarms, and sub-viral groups like any ligated RNA stem loop groups that cooperate and coordinate (regulate) within cellular genomes as replication-relevant co-players.” https://lnkd.in/dWwkKpD View in LinkedIn

MEMORY AND IMAGINATION. "During the past few years, there has been a dramatic increase in research examining the role of memory in imagination and future thinking. This work has revealed striking similarities between remembering the past and imagining or simulating the future, including the finding that a common brain network underlies both memory and imagination." (Google Deepmind). https://lnkd.in/daaAAYt View in LinkedIn

GAME TEST. "We tested this agent on the challenging domain of classic Atari 2600 games. We demonstrate that the deep Q-network agent, receiving only the pixels and the game score as inputs, was able to surpass the performance of all previous algorithms and achieve a level comparable to that of a professional human games tester across a set of 49 games, using the same algorithm, network architecture and hyperparameters." (Google Deepmind). https://lnkd.in/daWaSDk View in LinkedIn

SO ENDS this original contribution to biology from a philosopher. In particular, the transition from complex chemistry to life, abiogenesis, is at the heart of this. Identification of self, and cooperation are two clear themes. This is not Kipling’s “nature red in tooth and claw” nor the jungle of competition from Darwin, but a more modern synthesis of what drives evolution. View in LinkedIn