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INSCRUTABLE. “Our minds contain processes that enable us to solve problems we consider difficult. Intelligence is our name for whichever of those processes we don't yet understand.” https://lnkd.in/dYTNHMv View in LinkedIn

IMPERCEPTIBLE. “Evolution's time rate is so slow that we don't see it as intelligent, even though it finally produces wonderful things we ourselves cannot yet make.” https://lnkd.in/dYTNHMv View in LinkedIn

REDUCTIONISM. “The same applies to words like life and mind. It is foolish to use these words for describing the smallest components of living things because these words were invented to describe how larger assemblies interact.” https://lnkd.in/dA6xPFi View in LinkedIn

GREATER THAN THE SUM. “What is Life? One dissects a body but finds no life inside. What is Mind? One dissects a brain but finds no mind therein. Are life and mind so much more than the sum of their parts that it is useless to search for them?” https://lnkd.in/dA6xPFi View in LinkedIn

COMBINATIONS. “Minsky gives several examples in the Society of Mind of how one might combine primitive agents into larger agencies that can do more complex things.” https://lnkd.in/dkTGTAb View in LinkedIn

DUMB PARTS. “We want to explain intelligence as a combination of simpler things. This means that we must be sure to check, at every step, that none of our agents is, itself, intelligent." The same with living cells made of innate molecular parts. https://lnkd.in/dQ9SQiK View in LinkedIn

MORE TRAPS. “Duplication is not the same as life. Complex chemicals are capable of duplication. Amino acids and protein are not alive, but they duplicate and are a requirement for replication. Proto-life catalyzes and carries information required for its own existence.” https://lnkd.in/dSqra5e MORE TRAPS. “Duplication is not the same as life. Complex chemicals are capable of duplication. Amino acids and protein are not alive, but they duplicate and are a requirement for replication. Proto-life catalyzes and carries information required for its own existence.”https://lnkd.in/dSqra5e View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE highlights a deeply enlightened and timely paper by John Dupré and Maureen A. O’Malley called ‘Life at the Intersection of Lineage and Metabolism’. It discusses the unconventional idea of living ecosystems and chemicals as a continuum of structured collaborative entities. This is sure to offend some luddite biologists. View in LinkedIn

NON-LIVING IMMORTAL. “Birth and death is one of the characteristics of living thing, DNA appeared in the living and it is not having birth point to have death point. So, DNA is non-living because it never dies.” https://lnkd.in/dMinrW7 View in LinkedIn