How to determine that we have created an artificial, but living wayward creature (capable of wanting and striving), and not another, albeit a very complex tool (algorithm or robot) for our own purposes?
Stuart Kauffman, a modern genius of the level of Aristotle, together with Andrea Raleigh, a researcher of AI from the University of Bologna, was able to answer this sacramental question for the first time.
Stuart Kauffman, a modern genius of the level of Aristotle, together with Andrea Raleigh, a researcher of AI from the University of Bologna, was able to answer this sacramental question for the first time.
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Since early cybernetics studies by Wiener, Pask, and Ashby, the properties of living systems are subject to deep investigations. The goals of this endeavour are both understanding and building: abstract models and general principles are sought for describing…
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This Beetle's Shell Is So Diabolically Tough It Can Be Driven Over. Now We Know How
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This Beetle's Shell Is So Diabolically Tough It Can Be Driven Over. Now We Know How
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This Beetle's Shell Is So Diabolically Tough It Can Be Driven Over. Now We Know How
The diabolical ironclad beetle (Phloeodes diabolicus) of North America doesn't have the visual pizzazz of some of its more shiny beetle cousins, looking more like a small piece of gnarly bark or stone.
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The First Nest of Giant 'Murder Hornets' Discovered in The US Has Been Eradicated
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The First Nest of Giant 'Murder Hornets' Discovered in The US Has Been Eradicated
Agricultural department workers wearing protective suits have eradicated the first nest of giant "murder hornets" discovered in the United States, vacuuming them out of a tree in Washington state.
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Famous Alien-Hunting Equation Inspires New Way to Predict COVID-19 Spread
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Famous Alien-Hunting Equation Inspires New Way to Predict COVID-19 Spread
A famous equation used in the search for alien life has inspired a new model that estimates the odds of COVID-19 transmission.
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A sudden loss of smell and taste was one of the first unusual symptoms reported by COVID-19 patients, but stroke, seizures, and swelling of the brain (called encephalitis) have all been described. Some patients diagnosed with COVID-19 also experience confusion, delirium, dizziness, and have difficulty concentrating, according to case reports and reviews.
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Astronomers Confirm a Rogue Earth-Sized Planet Careening Through Our Galaxy
Scientists suspect that billions of free-floating or "rogue" planets may exist in the Milky Way, but so far only a handful of candidates have turned up among the 4,000-or-so worlds discovered beyond our Solar System.
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Scientists suspect that billions of free-floating or "rogue" planets may exist in the Milky Way, but so far only a handful of candidates have turned up among the 4,000-or-so worlds discovered beyond our Solar System.
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Scientists Say This New Rice-Cooking Hack Removes Arsenic But Keeps The Nutrients
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Scientists Say This New Rice-Cooking Hack Removes Arsenic But Keeps The Nutrients
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Rice is one of the most widely consumed foods in the world. It's also very high in arsenic compared to most other foods, absorbing about 10 times as much toxic inorganic arsenic as other cereal crops.
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Elon Musk's SpaceX Now Wants to Impose Its 'Own Legal Regime' on Mars
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Elon Musk's SpaceX Now Wants to Impose Its 'Own Legal Regime' on Mars
SpaceX may try impose its "own legal regime" on Mars and form a "self-governing", self-sustaining settlement where Earth laws wouldn't apply.
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NASA Finally Makes Contact With Voyager 2 After Longest Radio Silence in 30 Years
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NASA Finally Makes Contact With Voyager 2 After Longest Radio Silence in 30 Years
There's never been a radio silence quite like this one. After long months with no way of making contact with Voyager 2, NASA has finally reestablished communications with the record-setting interstellar spacecraft.
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This Weird Rock Naturally Glows in The Dark, And Now Scientists Have Figured Out How
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This Weird Rock Naturally Glows in The Dark, And Now Scientists Have Figured Out How
The afterglow of the mineral hackmanite (or tenebrescent sodalite) is a fascinating natural phenomenon that has long been a mystery to scientists – even if we're now able to engineer synthetic materials that glow in the dark more effectively than
NASA Rocket Engines May Include Large-Scale 3D Printing
NASA’s Rapid Analysis and Manufacturing Propulsion Technology project, or RAMPT, is advancing development of an additive manufacturing technique to 3D print rocket engine parts using metal powder and lasers. The method, called blown powder directed energy deposition, could bring down costs and lead times for producing large, complex engine components like nozzles and combustion chambers.
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NASA’s Rapid Analysis and Manufacturing Propulsion Technology project, or RAMPT, is advancing development of an additive manufacturing technique to 3D print rocket engine parts using metal powder and lasers. The method, called blown powder directed energy deposition, could bring down costs and lead times for producing large, complex engine components like nozzles and combustion chambers.
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First-Ever Flu Vaccine Derived From Tobacco Plants Just Smashed Clinical Trials
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First-Ever Flu Vaccine Derived From Tobacco Plants Just Smashed Clinical Trials
A new flu vaccine grown in plants has been put to the test in two large-scale clinical trials, a first for vaccine research.
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Ancient Lake Discovered Under Greenland May Be Millions of Years Old, Scientists Say
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Ancient Lake Discovered Under Greenland May Be Millions of Years Old, Scientists Say
The remains of a giant, ancient lake have been discovered under Greenland, buried deep below the ice sheet in the northwest of the country and estimated to be hundreds of thousands of years old, if not millions, scientists say.
Physicists Pin Down Nuclear Reaction From Moments After the Big Bang
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The newly-measured rate of a key nuclear fusion process from the Big Bang matches the picture of the universe 380,000 years later.The reaction involves deuterium, a form of hydrogen consisting of one proton and one neutron that fused within the cosmos’s first three minutes. Most of the deuterium quickly fused into heavier, stabler elements like helium and lithium. But some survived to the present day.
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Computer Chip With Atomically Thin Layers Works Like The Neurons in Our Brains
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Computer Chip With Atomically Thin Layers Works Like The Neurons in Our Brains
Traditional computer chips use separate areas for calculations and data storage, but new research has shown how these areas can be combined together on a 2D material for the first time – which should lead to smaller, more powerful, more energy-ef
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Astronomers Discover Binary Black Holes That Have Their Own 'Electron'
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Astronomers Discover Binary Black Holes That Have Their Own 'Electron'
Black holes are notable for many things, especially their simplicity. They're just … holes. That are 'black.' This simplicity allows us to draw surprising parallels between black holes and other branches of physics.