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TAMING COMPLEXITY. "The explicit search for simplicity uncovers new and unexpected features of the biological system and that the evidence for simplification gives us a language with which to phrase new questions for the next generation of experiments. The fact that similar mathematical structures succeed in taming the complexity of very different biological systems hints that there is something more general to be discovered." https://lnkd.in/ddBeYeg View in LinkedIn

EMERGENT PROPERTIES. "Chaotic dynamics and fractal space in biochemistry: Simplicity underlies complexity. Non-linear interactions in and between spatial and temporal domains and over wide ranges of scales underlie the emergent properties of complex biological systems." https://lnkd.in/dNkqWKk View in LinkedIn

FINAL OUTPUT. "We may be able to simplify the model for these immune receptors from about 3,000 steps to three steps...You wouldn't need a supercomputer to test different chemical compounds on the receptors, because you don't need to simulate every single step – just the aggregate." https://lnkd.in/d7wfFBs View in LinkedIn

AGGREGATE SIMPLICITY EMERGES. "The larger and more complex the system gets, the more the aggregate behavior is visible...The completion time gets simpler and simpler as the system size goes up." https://lnkd.in/d7wfFBs View in LinkedIn

MODULAR METABOLISM. "Biophysicist Ilya Nemenman from Emory University has identified key parameters which distill the behaviour of several biochemical networks, into simple equivalent dynamics. It appears that the details of the complexity of these biological systems don't matter, as long as some aggregate property, which we've calculated, remains the same." https://lnkd.in/d7wfFBs View in LinkedIn

PREBIOTIC SOUP. "The analogy with biological organisms is highly tenuous—as Edge readers will be flooding your inbox to point out. It's just the beginnings of something, in a faintly metazoan sense. The operating system used to be the system that operated a computer. Now it is becoming something else." https://lnkd.in/dVwXzv5 View in LinkedIn

LARGE AND BLURRING BORDERLINE. "The fact that all the dominant modern theories consider that life progressively emerged from some kind of proto-organisms, strongly grounds the hypothesis of the existence of a large and blurring borderline between living and non-living, were the inert progressively fades into the living." https://lnkd.in/dEj5vVD View in LinkedIn

MULTI-CELLULAR ORGANIZATION ON THE NET. "Dyson argued that "turning this into a political issue-Government versus Microsoft-is diverting attention from something much more significant: the growth of multi-cellular forms of organization on the Net." https://lnkd.in/dVwXzv5 View in LinkedIn

EXPANDING UNIVERSE. "We're missing a tremendous opportunity. We're asleep at the switch because it's not a metaphor. In 1945 we actually did create a new universe. This is a universe of numbers with a life of their own, that we only see in terms of what those numbers can do for us...there really is a universe of self-reproducing digital code. When I last checked, it was growing by five trillion bits per second. And that's not just a metaphor for something else. It actually is. It's a physical reality." https://lnkd.in/dVwXzv5 View in LinkedIn

DIGITAL UNIVERSE. "What we're missing now, on another level, is not just biology, but cosmology. People treat the digital universe as some sort of metaphor, just a cute word for all these products. The universe of Apple, the universe of Google, the universe of Facebook, that these collectively constitute the digital universe, and we can only see it in human terms and what does this do for us?" https://lnkd.in/dVwXzv5 View in LinkedIn