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The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Finally Solving the Mystery of Life
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By promoting self-organization, energy flux gradually converts a clump of mindless molecules into information-processing machinery with agency—meaning the self-drive and purposeful action that we associate with life.
Bobby Azarian • The Romance of Reality: How the Universe Organizes Itself to Create Life, Consciousness, and Cosmic Complexity
What Darwin discovered, and what Paley could not quite see, is that there is no need for any intentional design process: biological adaptations in animals can be created out of elementary components of matter, such as simple chemicals, via a nonpurposeful process called natural selection.
Chiara Marletto • The Science of Can and Can't: A Physicist's Journey through the Land of Counterfactuals
Ah. Why are European-Americans suddenly so inferior at math since like 1998? Why are the people of Newton, Einstein, Dirac, Crick, Feynman, Heisenberg etc suddenly no longer able to do first rate science? Excellent question!
Do you want the brutal answer? Those "white kids" are being forced into trying to figure out how... See more
Eric Weinsteinx.comFor example, scientists at the Santa Fe Institute, such as Artemy Kolchinsky and distinguished physicist David Wolpert, are working on semantic information measures based on an approach known as teleosemantics, which assumes that the system being analyzed pursues some objective.
Bobby Azarian • The Romance of Reality: How the Universe Organizes Itself to Create Life, Consciousness, and Cosmic Complexity
that people—or, if you like, automata, algorithms—can and do act in situations that are not well defined.