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Machine Nature: The Coming Age of Bio-Inspired Computing
No full textMachine Nature: The Coming Age of Bio-Inspired Computing
Artificial Life, but very much popular science; at most a first, very basic, overview.
page 185:
Nature has come up not only with ingenious solutions to specific problems - for example, structural designs such as eyes or wings - but indeed has found (and founded) entirely new processes to aid in the emergence of complex organisms. Two of the most important ones are ontogeny (the development of a multicellular organism from a single mother cell) and learning
Autopoiesis and cognition in the game of life
No full textAutopoiesis and cognition in the game of life
Nice tribute to Maturanas and Varelas idea of defining a system as alive when it keeps up its structure and has some boundary which seperates it from the environment. Applying these principles to a very simplicistic artificial system (which is destroyed by virtually any perturbation from the environment and has a 100 percent permeable boundary) is not too helpful. The problems of the concept remain
Siddhartha
No full textSiddhartha
Pleading for more imperturbability.
Thoughts, feelings and insights can not always be worded and communicated without loss (but maybe it works indirectly, by describing "the path")
Einsteins Schleier
No full textEinsteins Schleier
Good introduction to quantum physics; explanation by lots of experiments. Conects information and matter. Where does objective chance come into play? Particle and wave properties of light (observation of small molecules changes their behaviour)