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AVOIDING IMMUNE SURVEILLANCE. "Already computer viruses exist that are capable of mutating their byte-level appearance, so as to foil virus detection software schemes that search for sequences of bytes uniquely associated with known viruses. It is not hard...to further imagine advanced anti-virus software that itself evolves counter-adaptations to the latest viral tricks" just like in nature.” https://lnkd.in/dgC8qNr View in LinkedIn

"THE ELECTRONIC ECOLOGIES that eventuate were astounding. The instrumentation sequences that serve as "organismal" analogues spontaneously developed sophisticated behaviours. Among these were complex patterns of memory, flocking, parasitism and immunity, predator-prey relationships, and sexual reproduction." (Page 51). https://lnkd.in/etkXtU6 View in LinkedIn

COMPUTATIONAL VIRAL ECOSYSTEMS. "A number of processes in parallel execute instructions held in a shared block of memory. Processes may spawn other processes, overwrite instructions and in effect compete for memory and execution time resources." https://lnkd.in/etkXtU6 View in LinkedIn

ERROR TOLERANCE. "Genes apparently can tolerate a higher percentage of errors than computer code or written text. Sixty-one codons code for only twenty amino acids, so many of the codons are synonymous. Also, proteins can tolerate amino acid substitutions at many positions without losing their function." https://lnkd.in/dH9XaVn View in LinkedIn

COUNTERPARTS. "Digital codes in the form of electronic, magnetic or optical strings of 1's and 0's are as omnipresent in information technology as nucleotide codes in the form of DNA strings of A's, C's, G's and T's are in living nature." http://benthamopen.com/contents/pdf/TOEVOLJ/TOEVOLJ-5-1.pdf View in LinkedIn

SO ENDS this fragment from nature on the light-synchronized control of plant flowering. The ordered universe meshes with life on earth in great clocks with elaborate genetic control to ensure that sperm meets egg at the correct time in the correct place, and that the mandate of life — reproduction — carries on in glorious wasteful abundance to ensure the survival of the species. If ever there was a single metaphoric cartoon of life, then this is it. View in LinkedIn

INEVITABLE. "Computer viruses. Viral evolution may not only be possible but inevitable." https://lnkd.in/g5hUBjg View in LinkedIn

PATHWAY INTERACTIONS. "Floral-promotion pathways do not act in isolation but interact with floral-enabling pathways. The photoperiodic pathway promotes flowering through activation of the floral-integrator genes FT and SOC1, but this is not possible when high levels of FLC are present." https://lnkd.in/d_f7kfY View in LinkedIn

EARLY STAGES. "The number of real, physical robots with evolved bodies can be counted on the fingers of one hand: 95+% evolution of robot brains (only the controllers); 4-%: evolution of robot morphologies in simulation (co-evolution body/brain);

PHOTOPERIODS PATHWAY. "Of the floral-promotion pathways, the photoperiodic pathway is probably the best understood. Key elements include a gene named CONSTANS, or CO, which encodes a nuclear protein with two zinc fingers at the amino terminus and a conserved carboxyl-terminal domain, known as the CCT domain for the three plant proteins in which it was identified." https://lnkd.in/d_f7kfY View in LinkedIn