Month: September 2022

DIGI-BIOTIC ECOLOGY. "He is confident that once his "one-celled" simple self-replicating organisms encounter the immensity, the topological intricacy, and the fluid instability of the Net, they will quickly rise to the occasion and evolve into tightly coordinated multicellular conglomerates, thus setting off the dreamed-of Big Bang of complex digi-biotic diversity. https://lnkd.in/edrARjk View in LinkedIn

DIGECOLOGY. "Ray foresees digital naturalists like "modern day tropical biologists exploring our organic jungles." https://lnkd.in/edrARjk View in LinkedIn

FREUD LIVES. "And if all goes according to plan, he will keep on breeding them until he has achieved a goal far more adventurous than anything yet attempted by other virus programmers – infusing the vast unused spaces of the global computer networks with a roiling digital ecology as complex, as fascinating, and ultimately as beneficial to humankind as the rain forests that he has long sought to protect and understand." https://lnkd.in/edrARjk View in LinkedIn

DIGITAL JUNGLE. "In short, by infecting the Net with self-replicating code, Ray aims to turn it into a jungle." https://lnkd.in/edrARjk View in LinkedIn

UNPONDERABLE. "Trying to imagine the marvels that pour forth once you've successfully tapped a computer as elaborate as the Net is as futile as trying to map the future of a society, or of a life – or of life itself." https://lnkd.in/edrARjk View in LinkedIn

TIERRA. "The electronic ecologies that eventuated were astounding. The instruction sequences that serve as "organism" analogues spontaneously developed sophisticated behaviours. Among these were complex patterns in memory, flocking, parasitism and immunity, predator-prey relationships and sexual reproduction." https://lnkd.in/g5hUBjg View in LinkedIn

GROWING COMPLEXITY. "Given that the instructions and operations of the organisms are those of a simple von Neumann assembly language, the ecologies can be seen as a model of viral evolution, indicating that given sufficient time there is no barrier to viruses spontaneously developing sophisticated behaviour." https://lnkd.in/g5hUBjg View in LinkedIn

SIMPLE BREEDS COMPLEX. "It is also instructive to observe how little code is required to achieve seemingly complex strategies. The progenitor organism in Tierra used 80 instructions." https://lnkd.in/g5hUBjg View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE ruminates on whether there is any evidence that nature operates primarily to increase genetic information. This question is more accessible today due to the large amount of data incoming on sequencing genomes of many taxa, and although very, very, far from complete, early indications give some clues to this question. View in LinkedIn

INCREASING GENOMIC COMPLEXITY. "Complete genomic sequences from diverse phylogenetic lineages reveal notable increases in genome complexity from prokaryotes to multicellular eukaryotes. The changes include gradual increases in gene number, resulting from the retention of duplicate genes, and more abrupt increases in the abundance of spliceosomal introns and mobile genetic elements." https://lnkd.in/dsqiJD5 View in LinkedIn