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SO ENDS this fragment from nature on the light-synchronized control of plant flowering. The ordered universe meshes with life on earth in great clocks with elaborate genetic control to ensure that sperm meets egg at the correct time in the correct place, and that the mandate of life — reproduction — carries on in glorious wasteful abundance to ensure the survival of the species. If ever there was a single metaphoric cartoon of life, then this is it. View in LinkedIn

INEVITABLE. "Computer viruses. Viral evolution may not only be possible but inevitable." https://lnkd.in/g5hUBjg View in LinkedIn

PATHWAY INTERACTIONS. "Floral-promotion pathways do not act in isolation but interact with floral-enabling pathways. The photoperiodic pathway promotes flowering through activation of the floral-integrator genes FT and SOC1, but this is not possible when high levels of FLC are present." https://lnkd.in/d_f7kfY View in LinkedIn

EARLY STAGES. "The number of real, physical robots with evolved bodies can be counted on the fingers of one hand: 95+% evolution of robot brains (only the controllers); 4-%: evolution of robot morphologies in simulation (co-evolution body/brain);

PHOTOPERIODS PATHWAY. "Of the floral-promotion pathways, the photoperiodic pathway is probably the best understood. Key elements include a gene named CONSTANS, or CO, which encodes a nuclear protein with two zinc fingers at the amino terminus and a conserved carboxyl-terminal domain, known as the CCT domain for the three plant proteins in which it was identified." https://lnkd.in/d_f7kfY View in LinkedIn

INNOCENCE LOST. "The first virus outbreak broke out in 1981 with the ELK CLONER virus, followed by BRAIN in 1986, the first virus to implement stealth techniques, and from then by numerous other viruses." https://lnkd.in/epaSkG4 View in LinkedIn

NOT ALL BAD. "Cohen has tested the proposition that viruses can create useful code in a number of applications." https://lnkd.in/edrARjk View in LinkedIn

EVOLVING. "Computer scientist Fred Cohen also proved that viruses are potentially useful as all-purpose computing devices. As Cohen later put it, "anything a Turing machine can compute, a virus can evolve." https://lnkd.in/edrARjk View in LinkedIn

DEFINITION. "In 1987, Fred Cohen, the pioneer researcher in computer viruses, defined a computer virus to be: “A program that can infect other programs by modifying them to include a possibly evolved copy of itself”. https://lnkd.in/epaSkG4 View in LinkedIn

"TERRESTRIAL VIRUSES have shown remarkable resistance to environmental perturbation. Computer viruses in contrast are somewhat fragile, although examples can be cited of viral adaptation and more recently examples have been seen with error-correcting code." https://lnkd.in/g5hUBjg View in LinkedIn