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SWARM INTELLIGENCE. "Some theorists in the area of artificial intelligence have put forward the idea that an AI could spontaneously evolve/develop from a sufficiently complex system, like a massive supercomputer or the global internet." https://lnkd.in/dNu67JP View in LinkedIn

SELF-WRITING BIO-CODE. "The genome has traditionally been treated as a Read-Only Memory (ROM) subject to change by copying errors and accidents. In this review, I propose that we need to change that perspective and understand the genome as an intricately formatted Read–Write (RW) data storage system constantly subject to cellular modifications and inscriptions." https://lnkd.in/eFS9cuj View in LinkedIn

SELF-WRITING CODE. "The core point is that computers can write software themselves, and that this technology is under active research. Over time, we've both improved the systems for actually synthesizing code and found new uses for existing ones. Most of the advances are still somewhat rudimentary, and unlikely to see real use any time soon, but some specific technologies like Flash-Fill have already found their ways into consumer products." https://lnkd.in/d8uRh9a View in LinkedIn

PROGRAM SYNTHESIS. "There's no fundamental problem: computers totally can program themselves. Just not very well. Yet." https://lnkd.in/d8uRh9a View in LinkedIn

DIVERGENT LARVAE. "Poecilogony, a rare phenomenon in marine invertebrates, occurs when alternative larval morphs differing in dispersal potential or trophic mode are produced from a single genome." https://lnkd.in/dVRyG9n View in LinkedIn

NEW THINKING. "Why can't computers program themselves? Why can't there be some combination of Genetic Algorithms, Inductive Logic Programming and the vast amounts of open source code as data, that can deduce the functions of code? Based on the patterns of programming, we should be able to generate programs based on a requirement as specified by a very high level language." https://lnkd.in/d8uRh9a View in LinkedIn

CONVERGENCE EXAMPLE. "For example, tunicates such as the colonial sea squirts (Botryllus spp.) can reproduce both sexually, through egg fertilization followed by embryonic and larval development, and asexually, from a bud, and without intervening larvae: the full-grown animals are nevertheless very similar in gross anatomy and in many details of structure." http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/365/1540/631.short View in LinkedIn

"ORDER IS NOT SUFFICIENT. What is required, is something much more complex. It is order entering upon novelty; so that the massiveness of order does not degenerate into mere repetition; and so that the novelty is always reflected upon a background of system." (A. N. Whitehead on “Ideal Opposites” in Process and Reality.) https://lnkd.in/dMkrh4P View in LinkedIn

PHENOTYPIC CONVERGENCE. "If a complex life cycle presents a number of alternative phenotypes (through divergent developmental pathways), this implies that at some point, distinct alternative developmental routes must converge towards the same phenotype." http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/365/1540/631.short View in LinkedIn

"EMERGENT COMPUTING is both a result of the unanticipated interplay of parts of an executable object and a way of modeling the appearance of putatively emergent properties." https://lnkd.in/dPyhGnF View in LinkedIn