Ricard Solé
LightNews LightNews
banner
ricardsole.bsky.social
Ricard Solé
@ricardsole.bsky.social
3.7K followers 720 following 350 posts

Scientist & skeptic. Dad. Book addict. Pathologically curious. Origins and Evolution of Complexity, Synthetic Transitions, Liquid Brains, and Earth Terraformation. ICREA + SFI professor. Author. Secular humanist.

Videos
Biology 28%
Physics 16%
Posts Replies Media Videos
Pinned
ricardsole.bsky.social
Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · Nov 6
Back to @sfiscience.bsky.social joining the night shift (with some extra coffee) at the Cormac McCarthy's Library. Working on criticality + cancer, statistical physics of ant colonies, the Physarum Lagrangian, universal genetic codes, synthetic agriculture & hybrid agencies.
@jordiplam.bsky.social

ricardsole.bsky.social
Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 3h
How did organs originated in the evolution of multicellularity? Despite their obvious importance, we still lack a theory of evolutionary organogenesis. Here's a @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social paper on how the placenta can offer answers @multicellgenome.bsky.social www.researchgate.net/profile/Oliv...

Reposted by Ricard V. Solé

quantamagazine.bsky.social
Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.bsky.social · 22h
A balance of infection and harmony called endosymbiosis helps shape evolution. For the first time, biologists have reproduced this arrangement between microbes in a lab.
Scientists Re-Create the Microbial Dance That Sparked Complex Life | Quanta Magazine
Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent home inside another. For the first time, biologists made it happen in the lab.
www.quantamagazine.org

ricardsole.bsky.social
Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 1d
I need to get deeper into it. I believe it remains in the same twilight zone: provides potentially new viees regarding the dynamical side and some useful extra bits concerning how to deal with computation.

ricardsole.bsky.social
Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 1d
I disagree. The Ising model provides a very interesting observation concerning the presence of a potentially universal trait of brain dynamics: criticality or quasi criticality. Not a trivial thing. But does not provide deep insights into how computation/information processing takes place.

ricardsole.bsky.social
Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 1d
I deleted the post and did it again with the right link, thanks.

ricardsole.bsky.social
Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 1d
Please give a look to the paper before being so opinionated.

ricardsole.bsky.social
Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 1d
I am not sure what is your point and I certainly disagree that "any trivial" model accounts for real data.

ricardsole.bsky.social
Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 1d
What if the human brain computes quantum-like, without being quantum? New work by @melisupf.bsky.social Gus Deco shows that whole-brain models with quantum-like (QL) probability rules best match human brain data.
@manlius.bsky.social @icreacommunity.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

ricardsole.bsky.social
Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 1d
LINK: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org

Reposted by Ricard V. Solé

Reposted by Ricard V. Solé

Reposted by Ricard V. Solé

ricardsole.bsky.social
Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 5d
Vols viatjar en el temps? De l'origen de la vida a la ment humana a la teoria de la relativitat, els viatges en el temps o la historia, t'esperem a la expo "La Invenció del Temps" al Centre Martorell @crisaez.bsky.social @prbb.org museuciencies.cat/exposicio_te... @ajuntamentbcn.bsky.social

Reposted by Ricard V. Solé

ricardsole.bsky.social
Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 6d
What would happen to consciousness if two brains were connected? Could two people share experiences while remaining distinct selves? Cases like the Hogan twins suggest yes, and theories about the neural locality of consciousness make shared experience likely. philarchive.org/archive/COCA...

ricardsole.bsky.social
Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 6d
Thanks! It's been a long and winding road"!

Reposted by Ricard V. Solé, Paul Goldberg

evamirandag.bsky.social
Eva Miranda @evamirandag.bsky.social · 6d
Classical billiards can compute.

With Isaac Ramos, we show that 2D billiard systems are Turing complete, implying the existence of undecidable trajectories in physically natural models from hard-sphere gases to celestial mechanics.
Determinism ≠ predictability. 🎱🧠 @upc.edu @ricardsole.bsky.social
Classical billiards can compute

Reposted by Brian J. Enquist, Juan Rocha

ricardsole.bsky.social
Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 6d
Cooperation is a universal feature of complex systems, from the origins of life and microbiomes to societies. What universal patterns can be found in these systems? Here's our new @pnas.org paper. @jordipinero.bsky.social @artemyte.bsky.social @sfiscience.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

Reposted by Ricard V. Solé

Reposted by Ricard V. Solé

ricardsole.bsky.social
Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 10d
Such a great paper, congratulations!

Reposted by Ricard V. Solé, Neil Pederson, Carlos Gershenson , and 2 more

manlius.bsky.social
Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · 10d
🚨 What if evolution is the ”law”… and networks are the machines that do the work?

In this paper (just published) I try to formalize how living systems are non-equilibrium, information-processing, adaptive matter. With a great biological flavor! 🧪🌐🌍🧬🦠

👉 iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

🧵 1/

ricardsole.bsky.social
Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 10d
“Those of us who do not believe that we are divinely created, let alone divinely supervised, are not immune to the idea of awe and beauty and the transcendent.” Christopher Hitchens gave a powerful defense of awe in science. He died 14 years ago today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K0a...