The 'origin of life' is a continual process on this planet, happening each time a new combinatorial space is generated as a new substrate for evolution and selection ... evolution is open-ended because it's origin is not substrate dependent.

Impossible to synthesize what happened for the 1st Solvay conf on biology🤩. We followed the long term vision of its founder. We had a huge fun meeting/discussing such a central problem in biology. We will now work hard on proceedings. A huge thanks to all amazing participants 🙏🏼

A new century, a new fundamental problem to solve! The 1st Solvay Conference on Biology, on the topic of the 'The organisation and dynamics of biological computation' ... almost 100 years after the famous Solvay conferences in physics laid down the foundations of QM, we find…

A nice feature of AT is that it is a theory that “knows” it is not a final theory because of the recursion. This idea makes me happy - we can leave it to subsequent generations to have better ideas than we do, but at least we can show some anticipation that we knew they would :)

The world is not a computation, but computation is our best current language for understanding the world, it is important we recognize this so we can start to see the structure of our future languages that will allow us to see deeper than computation allows us.

“Function” is not a pre-existing concept in the biosphere, it is an emergent one - a concept of function as the base reality of life will never get to the more objective, causal co-construction process underneath from which function emerges

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Life is the only recursive state of matter.

Thinking Beyond with Mark Jackson will be on 'The Race for Quantum Computing' on April 29th at 6pm MST/ 6pm PST/8pm EST. Register at asu.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

materiality is what can be measured, reality is the composition of those measurements (it from bit), and life is how the universe learns to measure itself thereby expanding what can be materially real

life is lineages of information propagating through and structuring material reality.

If one wants to understand how truly combinatorially and compositionally complex our universe is, they only need step into the world of fashion, it’s bonkers how big the constructable space of human aesthetics is.

Calculus was invented in solving problems related to understanding moving bodies, and when applied to other areas like economics almost no one gets confused and thinks they are studying gravity. Computation was invented aiming to determine what mathematical problems are solvable…

Totality is a profound experience ❤️🤩

Science emerged through our need to objectively understand reality, and over centuries science started studying itself, understanding the historical contingencies and cultural factors that shape acquisition of knowledge. Now science is building a model of itself, but what follows…

Science emerged through our need to objectively understand reality, and over centuries science started studying itself, understanding the historical contingencies and cultural factors that shape acquisition of knowledge. Now science is building a model of itself, but what follows…

Realities simulate themselves to make more things real

Calculus was invented in solving problems related to understanding moving bodies, and when applied to other areas like economics almost no one gets confused and thinks they are studying gravity. Computation was invented aiming to determine what mathematical problems are solvable…