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NO SURPRISE. "Evolution dwarfs even the best team of engineers." https://lnkd.in/dtVFGBG View in LinkedIn

VIRTUAL CREATURES. "Even this simple world is complex enough to require three different modes of interrogation: what it is (the material); what it does (the operational); and what it means (the symbolic). Feedback loops connect the material, operational, and symbolic into an integrated, recursively structured hierarchy." https://lnkd.in/dWchfhd View in LinkedIn

HOD LIPSON "has co-authored over 200 papers and speaks frequently at high-profile venues such as TED and the National Academies. Hod directs the Creative Machines Lab, which pioneers new ways to make machines that create, and machines that are creative." https://lnkd.in/drCTazE View in LinkedIn

SO ENDS this contemplation of the relationship between pathogens and their hosts, and the balancing act between pathogen virulence and reproductive dispersal versus the evasive measures of the host including increased immunity and suicide, which reduce pathogen dispersal. This dance has gone on in parasite-host relationships in some form forever. At some level, the populations of both host and parasite have a meta-awareness of fecundity and costs, and these are brought to bear on the individual. An intriguing dance that reveals a lot about Nature. View in LinkedIn

PROFESSOR HOD LIPSON and others have taken a unique slant to evolving artificial life: keep the limited human imagination out of the process and let the physical universe effect evolution in very surprising and original ways. It is only a matter of time before computer viruses go mainstream with this approach: no programmer input in these mutations. View in LinkedIn

THE HOPE. 'If we have a system that can organize itself or can evolve in some sense, then the hope is that down the road the system, without any thought or care on our part, will become intelligent.'' https://lnkd.in/d8uZSVQ View in LinkedIn

FRACTAL GEOMETRY. "No one knows just how such rules are encoded in the genes of real plants; nevertheless, several demonstrations at Los Alamos created lifelike ferns, trees and even flowers from relatively modest fractal instructions." https://lnkd.in/d8uZSVQ View in LinkedIn

COMPLEXITY FROM SIMPLICITY. "Scientists have discovered in recent years that some seemingly complicated patterns, like the branching, jagged structures of plants, have simple descriptions in the language of fractal geometry, in which patterns are built up from rules repeated on different scales." https://lnkd.in/d8uZSVQ View in LinkedIn

SQUISHY QUESTIONS. "When does a curve look like a bug?" It is easier for a person to answer this question than any algorithm. https://lnkd.in/dZcpeGh View in LinkedIn

LEFT FIELD. "The recognition in recent years that complexity can arise spontaneously from simple systems gives the field of artificial life its strongest motivation. The scientists agreed that the most promising demonstrations were those whose lifelike qualities emerge unbidden, surprising even their programmers. 'Miracles Aren't Allowed'." https://lnkd.in/d8uZSVQ View in LinkedIn