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ABUNDANT CAPACITY. “The scientists estimated that there is enough data stored in the DNA molecules of every life-form alive today to occupy the processing capacity of a billion trillion of the most powerful supercomputers.” https://lnkd.in/dKU5Dr8 View in LinkedIn

NO ALGORITHM. “What magical trick makes us intelligent? The trick is that there is no trick. The power of intelligence stems from our vast diversity, not from any single, perfect principle.” (Marvin Minsky, The Society of Mind, p. 308). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Mind View in LinkedIn

THE GREY ZONE. "A single-celled bacterium is alive, but if you separate the macromolecules that combined to create the bacterium, these units are not alive. Based on our knowledge of macromolecules, we would not have been able to predict that they could combine to form a living organism, nor could we have predicted all of the characteristics of the resulting bacterium." http://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/biological-complexity-and-integrative-levels-of-organization-468 View in LinkedIn

ADDITIVE. “These kinds of experiences led Minsky and Papert to become powerful advocates of the view that intelligence was not the product of any simple recipe or algorithm for thinking, but rather resulted from the combined activity of great societies of more specialized cognitive processes.” https://lnkd.in/dkTGTAb View in LinkedIn

WHERE DOES LIFE STOP? A simple living cell is made of organelles and biological molecules. Is the organelle alive? Is a biomolecule alive? Is a ribosome or a nucleus alive? How far down can you divide? View in LinkedIn

A BINARY COMPUTER VIRUS "is a virus that carries one part of a double payload. Two strains of the virus exist, A and B. Both strains are innocuous in isolation but when they meet, the payloads combine to produce a malicious function.” https://books.google.com/books?id=_VLmBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA47&lpg=PA47&dq=computer+virus+metabolism&source=bl&ots=VZ5Xit6TPg&sig=2EBk5kG-yFSqUID0C-MnUht1dPc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi51qLC35fLAhUBcj4KHQW-B9AQ6AEIDDAB View in LinkedIn

DUMB UNITS. “This book assumes that any brain, machine, or other thing that has a mind must be composed of smaller things that cannot think at all.” https://lnkd.in/dAkkAGX View in LinkedIn

TRANSITIONS. “We suggest that competitive relations are a transitional state, with multi-lineage metabolic wholes eventually outcompeting selfish competitors, and that this process sometimes leads to the emergence of new types or levels of wholes.” https://lnkd.in/dVyX2pV View in LinkedIn

CONTINUUM. “Our account treats cooperation and competition not as polar opposites but as points on a continuum of collaboration.” https://lnkd.in/dVyX2pV View in LinkedIn

AUTONOMY ISSUE. “The usual criterion for classifying many of the entities of our continuum as non-living is autonomy. This emphasis on autonomy is problematic, however, because even paradigmatic biological individuals, such as large animals, are dependent on symbiotic associations with many other organisms.” https://lnkd.in/dVyX2pV View in LinkedIn