Bizarre Creatures Are World's First Self-Replicating 'Living Robots', Scientists Say
Peter Dockrillsciencealert.com
Bizarre Creatures Are World's First Self-Replicating 'Living Robots', Scientists Say
basic ingredients for systems that could devise and improvise solutions to living that are emergent, versatile, adaptive, and robust. The new picture dispels the long-standing idea that living systems must be regarded as machines.
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Ever wonder what the architecture of a neural network would look like, in a novel organism that had not been through selection for specific structure and function of an embodied nervous system? Here's our #preprint with morphological, behavioral, electrophysiological, and transcriptomic analysis of a new kind of Xenobot with a nervous system:___LI... See more
autopoiesis (or self-replication) occurs only in living systems. It is found nowhere in the cosmos, but only in the bios. It’s a major and profound emergent—