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STEEN RASMUSSEN: "Professor Rasmussen is currently the Head of the Center for Fundamental Living Technology (FLinT), a Research Director at the Department for Physics and Chemistry at University of Southern Denmark, External Research Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, USA, as well as Principle Investigator for the upstart of the Initiative for Society, and Policy (ISSP) in Denmark." https://lnkd.in/dnUNrjM View in LinkedIn

"THE SWARM CHEMISTRY world has become capable of producing fully autonomous ecological and evolutionary behaviors of self-organized “super-organisms” made of a number of swarming particles. With a finite amount of resources (i.e., fixed number of particles) provided in a closed environment, we have observed behaviors of those macroscopic patterns that could be interpreted in ecological/evolutionary terms, such as reproduction, chasing, and predation, all emerging out of local interactions among individual particles." https://lnkd.in/dZz238a View in LinkedIn

MOLECULAR MACHINES. "A class of artificial molecular machines consisting of folded and interconnected chains of basic artificial molecule constituents is described. Such machines are shown capable of carrying out any effective computational procedure. They can also produce molecule strings which are coded descriptions of themselves." https://lnkd.in/dhk_qd9 View in LinkedIn

SWARM CHEMISTRY. "We propose swarm chemistry a new artificial chemistry framework that uses artificial swarm populations as chemical reactants. Reaction in swarm chemistry is not determined by predefined reaction rules as commonly assumed in typical artificial chemistry studies, but is spontaneously achieved by the emergence of a new spatiotemporal pattern of collective behavior through the kinetic interaction between multiple chemical species.” https://lnkd.in/d4tbDm9 View in LinkedIn

SWARM BEHAVIORS. "Swarm Chemistry is a system devised by Sayama to model and simulate the behavior of groups of, for example, fish and ants." It can also be used for modeling evolving interacting particles. https://lnkd.in/d7dSPqh View in LinkedIn

NEW FORMS. "Life for me is a physical process. In principle, living processes can be carried by different kinds of materials. You are not limited to biochemistry. In our laboratory, in experiments we did at both Los Alamos and here in Denmark, we were not using biological materials. We're using molecules that do not exist in modern biology. We're really building out of something that's different than what modern biology is using." https://lnkd.in/dwADMWc View in LinkedIn

PLANT IMPACT ON INSECTS. "Moreover, plant activities appear to have caused rates of evolution in terrestrial animals to accelerate. Late Palaeozoic insect and tetrapod faunas diversified together with terrestrial plants, and enhanced burial of organic carbon raised global oxygen levels, fuelling a spectacular radiation of insect gigantism." https://lnkd.in/dBS9JZw View in LinkedIn

LIFE DEFINED. “The ability to evolve, self-reproduce, metabolize, adapt and die." https://lnkd.in/dwADMWc View in LinkedIn

SIMPLEST FORM. "The game, of course, is: How simplistically can that be done? A modern cell is a really complicated machine, but many of us think life can be created in much, much simpler forms." https://lnkd.in/dwADMWc View in LinkedIn

MINIMAL CELL. "Because one kind of information control of how you grow and divide may turn out to be better than another information control of how you grow and divide, the better one will be selected and reproduce. As this process continues you have evolution, and then you're done. If you can implement a system that can do this, you have created a minimal cell." https://lnkd.in/dwADMWc View in LinkedIn