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ORIGINS IN TURING’S AI. “The fundamental concept that integrated this new biological “information” with matter and energy was enshrined in the universal Turing machine and von Neumann‘s self-reproducing machines.” https://lnkd.in/dWwkKpD View in LinkedIn

REVOLUTIONARY COMPLEXITY. “The components of DNA are simple chemicals, but the biological complexity that can be generated by the information of different sequences is revolutionary.” https://lnkd.in/dWwkKpD View in LinkedIn

ECOLOGY OF DNA PARASITES. “In this respect DNA remains as ecosphere habitat for social interacting RNA inhabitants. This represents a pragmatic turn in biology from syntax centered molecular biology to pragmatics centered agents interactions.” https://lnkd.in/dWwkKpD View in LinkedIn

SO ENDS this first of two weekends examining a biologically-versed philosopher’s views on evolution. Not only highlighting the importance of horizontal gene transfer enabled by mobile genetic elements, he describes the rationale for genetic information being contextual by analogy with other natural linguistic codes. View in LinkedIn

INNATE WORLD. “Natural code-inherent rules are absent in abiotic matter that is determined strictly by natural laws: no syntax, pragmatic or semantic rules are present if water freezes to ice.” https://lnkd.in/dWwkKpD View in LinkedIn

ORIGIN OF SEMANTICS. “In all mathematical theories of language the syntax determines semantics (function), but in natural codes pragmatics (context) determines semantics.” https://lnkd.in/dWwkKpD View in LinkedIn

CREATURES ARE NOT MACHINES. “A machine can principally calculate only those functions for which an algorithm can be provided...Essential functions of every natural language, such as non-formalizable features are not object of algorithm based calculations. Living organisms are no machines.” https://lnkd.in/dWwkKpD View in LinkedIn

HIDDEN GRAMMAR. “The context-dependent epigenetic imprinting which represents a deep grammar hidden in the superficial grammar of nucleic acid sequences is not the focus of synthetic biology approaches.” https://lnkd.in/dWwkKpD View in LinkedIn

OPTIMIZED FITNESS. “The resulting evolution of life is an optimising process in that Darwinian selection evaluates the fittest results of mutations.” https://lnkd.in/dWwkKpD View in LinkedIn