Month: September 2022

FOOTNOTE. "We should note, that Clock is predicted to regulate migratory timing and not orientation." https://lnkd.in/dWFycUQ View in LinkedIn

ORIENTATION CANDIDATES. "There is only one set of suggested candidates for migratory orientation: cryptochromes. These molecules have been discussed as putative light-dependent magnetoreceptors; the magnetic compass likely aids with migratory orientation and thus cryptochromes may be crucial for this behavior." https://lnkd.in/dWFycUQ View in LinkedIn

CRYPTOCHROME. "Differences in cryptochrome expression patterns between migratory phenotypes have been identified using real-time PCR (RT-PCR) in garden warblers and blackcaps. Cryptochromes may also help regulate circadian feedback loops in molecular clocks, making them encouraging candidates for future work." https://lnkd.in/dWFycUQ View in LinkedIn

SENSE OF PLACE. How would you instruct your child to meet you in a future specified time in a specified place? They would probably need a diary, a map and a GPS, with a clear description of where to meet and the probable route to take. For migrating animals, particularly in the case of butterflies with life spans of weeks, this is an enormous challenge to package in their DNA. View in LinkedIn

GENE OF A SENSE OF PLACE. What information might a migratory gene or genes be expected to carry to inform the migrating creature where to go? An image? A particular scent? A longitude and latitude fix? All conveyed in molecules encoded in genes? This is the very root of inherited memory. What a concept. View in LinkedIn

SO ENDS this section on genes that code for animal migration. The feat of the Painted Lady or Monarch butterfly migration is probably beyond our comprehension. Descriptive molecular biology and genetics may have reached its limits with a coded description of journey and a sense of place. This Fragment is dedicated to my old friend, naturalist, and entomologist, grappling inimitable with the sense of place, Matthew Oates. View in LinkedIn

INTELLIGENT INTELLIGENCE. "Go” is the ancient game of strategy, with more possible game board configurations than there are stars in the universe. Those are the kinds of figures we once reserved for describing the number of connections in the human brain. It seems fitting that we turn our attention to “artificial” intelligence as it begins to look less artificial and more intelligent." https://lnkd.in/dxGnwJ3 View in LinkedIn

INTUITIVE INTELLIGENCE. "According to Unconscious Thought Theory (see the work of Ap Dijksterhuis), and popular books like Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink, human intuition may be our own version of the kind of processing that AlphaGo was doing when it defeated Lee Sedol in Go." https://lnkd.in/dxGnwJ3 View in LinkedIn

PREMATURE CROWING. "That notion of “building” thought processes is something that AI developers used to dream about it, and they’ve accomplished that dream." https://lnkd.in/dxGnwJ3 View in LinkedIn

ADDITIVE SIMPLICITY. "Essentially, simple processes are combined with other simple processes and the result is complexity. That is a simplification, but in principle that is how AI machines “learn” – they take what they already “know” (what’s been coded into them) and combine and recombine that into all of the varieties that can be combined." https://lnkd.in/dxGnwJ3 View in LinkedIn