Year: 2022

DISRUPTIVE JUMP. "However, since genetic material carries genetic information, the “source code” of all living activities, it is actually reasonable to question the plausibility of such a “revolutionary” transition." http://bmcevolbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12862-015-0548-1 View in LinkedIn

MOLECULAR FITNESS. "It seems that the instability of the transition stems from the “counterattack” of the four-gene RNA-based individuals, which though lacking a better genetic material, did not have to endure a shortage of building blocks for ribozymes." http://bmcevolbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12862-015-0548-1 View in LinkedIn

THE ORIGIN OF LIFE, the definition of life, and the separation between biomolecules and a living organism have confounded the most brilliant minds. Concepts of continuums are a compromise. Thus, no surprises, the artificial life scientists, with their evolving code, have poked fun at our inability to decide by being deliberately provocative. And why not? View in LinkedIn

ARTIFICIAL LIFE is a topic that resembles the place of viruses and mobile genetic elements in biology: living in some twilight zone between definitions, with a quirky unexpectedness that comes from freaky variety. The real lesson is that human imagination is significantly limited in contrast to undirected variation. Enjoy this ride into the often funny side of evolution. View in LinkedIn

EMERGENCE OF LIFE is an important question that relates to autonomous computer code or DNA equally. View in LinkedIn

TWO WAY. Just as biology informs artificial life, artificial life informs biology. View in LinkedIn

"ARTIFICIAL LIFE imitates traditional biology by trying to recreate some aspects of biological phenomena." https://lnkd.in/eE92tBk View in LinkedIn

THE VISION. "Unleashed from the plodding pace of biological evolution, the children of our minds will be free to grow to confront immense and fundamental challenges in the larger universe. We humans will benefit for a time from their labors, but sooner or later, like natural children, they will seek their own fortunes while we, their aged parents, silently fade away." (Hans Moravec (Mind Children). https://lnkd.in/etiQ6T7 View in LinkedIn

SIMULATED EVOLUTION. "The 1966 book, "Artificial Intelligence Through Simulated Evolution" by Fogel, Owens and Walsh is the landmark publication for EP applications, although many other papers appear earlier in the literature. In the book, finite state automata were evolved to predict symbol strings generated from Markov processes and non-stationary time series." https://lnkd.in/eC54QCG View in LinkedIn

ANTICIPATION. "Such evolutionary prediction was motivated by a recognition that prediction is a keystone to intelligent behavior (defined in terms of adaptive behavior, in that the intelligent organism must anticipate events in order to adapt behavior in light of a goal)." http://www6.uniovi.es/ftp/pub/EC/FAQ/www/Q1_2.htm View in LinkedIn