Pascale Soleil: artificialNaturewhat we make of lifeAnother Intersection- May 30, 2002 Bioinformatics, meet AI; AI, may I introduce Bioinformatics This was a convergence made in heaven. DNA, cellular function, biological pathways this material is by its nature (no pun intended) chock full of information. Too much information, in fact, for our tiny minds to juggle meaningfully. We will inevitably have to depend on computational assistance, and ultimately perhaps even intelligences other than our wetware to make sense of this stuff. Even if Stephen Wolfram is right, and the...http://radio.weblogs.com/0100595/categories/artificialnature/2002/05/29.html#a94 Life, the Universe, and Everything- May 21, 2002 I've just read an article which hits almost all of my intellectual hot buttons: cosmology, artificial intelligence, origins of lifeevolution, relativity, particle physics, pattern recognition, complexity and randomness, determinism and free will, Turing machines, networks, consciousness (it doesn't cover beauty, ethics, language, or God explicitly so at least some topics are left for another day). I heard for the first time about "digital physics." The density of cool ideas in this review by..http://radio.weblogs.com/0100595/categories/artificialnature/2002/05/21.html#a79 |