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ANALOGY WITH LIFE IS CLOSER. "What has changed in the past fourteen years is that the analogy with biological organisms is no longer highly tenuous." (George Dyson). https://lnkd.in/dVwXzv5 View in LinkedIn

NOT CHILDREN OF THEIR PARENTS. "Ludwig argues that computer viruses, unlike such other forms of artificial life as cellular automata, mobots, or genetic programming, are the only form of artificial life not biased by the hope of their creators." (Author of The Giant Black Book of Computer Viruses). https://lnkd.in/edrARjk View in LinkedIn

THE DIGITAL AGE OF BIOLOGY. "This is now the era of digital biology, in which the proteins and other interacting molecules in a cell can be viewed as its hardware and the information encoded in its DNA as its software." (Craig Venter). https://lnkd.in/eyZU783 View in LinkedIn

DARWINIAN EVOLUTION. "Mark Ludwig claims computer viruses are the only artificial life forms in the wild of which one can claim that their environments (operating systems) are not specially constructed to let them work. He finds that computer viruses can exhibit Darwinian evolution." https://lnkd.in/dbB7hd4 View in LinkedIn

DNA AS SOFTWARE. "DNA is the software of the cell, and when we change the software we change the species." (J Craig Venter). https://lnkd.in/eJFrT_P View in LinkedIn

SYNTHETIC LIFE. "Computer viruses are autonomous self-reproducing agents. They infect other computers just like viruses and parasites in the biological world do. Computer viruses are a form of artificial life." https://lnkd.in/dbB7hd4 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