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Forms of life, forms of mind | Dr. Michael Levin | Algorithms Redux: finding unexpected properties in truly minimal systems

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This is a continuation of the work reported here, which was based on a preprint but now the official paper is out. It was co-authored with Taining Zhang and Adam Goldstein, but the following is my personal take on it. Below you will find a brief introduction, some discussions and links, a few further thoughts, and a playful dialog at the end. My goal in starting this project was to show an interesting example in which surprising basal cognition – not merely complexity – can emerge in a system where the rules and components are clear, transparent, and deterministic. This is a contribution of a long-standing debate in science and philosophy about whether you know what something can do if you know its parts and how they work together. It also relates to the question, dealt with by the Polycomputing framework, of whether the design of the engineer who made something is the final story (or even a privileged story) of what it ‘really is’ and what it can do. I will deal with with this in dept

Forms of life, forms of mind | Dr. Michael Levin | Algorithms Redux: finding unexpected properties in truly minimal systems Conversations , Creative writing , Links , Science/philosophy content Algorithms Redux: finding unexpected properties in truly minimal systems Published by Mike Levin on August 20, 2024 This is a continuation of the work reported here , which was based on a preprint but now the official paper is out. It was co-authored with Taining Zhang and Adam Goldstein , but the following is my personal take on it. Below you will find a brief introduction, some discussions and links,

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