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OTHER LIFE. "Other examples of “fundamentally different” organizations include those without spatially localized individuals, hierarchical organization, genotype-phenotype distinction, or, indeed, any symbolic representation scheme. Macroscopic self-reproducing machines (robots), perhaps living in colonies and exploiting local resources to maintain themselves and grow, might give rise to a significantly different set of organizational possibilities and constraints." https://lnkd.in/dsMZPii View in LinkedIn

FUTURE PREDICTIONS DIFFICULT. "For at least four decades, computing power has increased exponentially, roughly in accordance with Moore's law. Experts disagree on how much longer Moore's law will hold." https://lnkd.in/dAZH9Vg View in LinkedIn

"THE QUASI-SPECIES THEORY of Eigen already demonstrates how information can then be generated from physical dynamics, selection being achievable through differences in rate coefficients for the production and destruction of such polymers." https://lnkd.in/dsMZPii View in LinkedIn

RUPTURED FABRIC. "Kurzweil extends Moore’s law to include technologies from far before the integrated circuit to future forms of computation. Whenever a technology approaches some kind of a barrier, he writes, a new technology will be invented to allow us to cross that barrier. He predicts that such paradigm shifts will become increasingly common, leading to “technological change so rapid and profound it represents a rupture in the fabric of human history”. https://lnkd.in/dTveM5M View in LinkedIn

NEED FOR GENES? "Eigen gave a strong argument that autocatalytic sets without genetic underpinning have a problem in principle with evolvability. No proof of this conclusion has been given, but examples to date of autocatalytic sets without replicable elements have failed to exhibit convincing evolution." https://lnkd.in/dsMZPii View in LinkedIn

HUMAN REDESIGN. "Since the Big Bang, the universe has been in constant evolution and continuous transformation. First there were physical and chemical processes, then biological evolution, and finally now technological evolution. As we begin to ride the wave into human redesign, the destination is still largely unknown but the opportunities are almost limitless." https://lnkd.in/dTveM5M View in LinkedIn

PROBING THE POSSIBLE. "Artificial life calls special attention to the question of whether there can be forms of life that are fundamentally different from the familiar biological instances. For example, life as we know it encodes information needed to re-create structures that cannot be copied directly (such as proteins) in combinatorial structures that can be copied generically (genes)." https://lnkd.in/dsMZPii View in LinkedIn

SHOCK VALUE. “The announcement last week that a robot had been granted Saudi Arabian citizenship – a gimmick, admittedly – was nevertheless reported as yet another step in the direction of our much-anticipated demise.The rise of the robots need not spell downfall for humans.” https://lnkd.in/d8_7UUC View in LinkedIn

GRAND CHALLENGE. "Determine Whether Fundamentally Novel Living Organizations Can Exist." https://lnkd.in/dsMZPii View in LinkedIn

"ARTIFICIAL CHEMISTRIES are computer-based model systems composed of objects (abstractions of molecules), which are generated by collision between existing objects according to a predefined interaction law. The collisions may be purely random or allow the buildup of spatial correlations, as in diffusion systems. Bimolecular chemistry is assumed to be sufficient to display the transition to life, but this may involve complex structures." https://lnkd.in/dsMZPii View in LinkedIn