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What is the physical basis of death? Can we manipulate cellular rules to avoid it? What does death mean for a machine? Is immortality possible? What does it mean for language, thought, or information to die? My new book @princetonupress.bsky.social is coming soon. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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When change moves faster than systems can adapt, they tip

Our culture of “now-ism” risks pushing climate, economies and societies past their limits

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How modern “now-ism“ can accelerate crises in climate, finance and ecosystems
Slowing change may be our last line of defense
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Can consciousness arise purely from computation, or does it require the biological mechanisms that allow computing? The tension between computational roles and biological realizers may hold the key. Check this paper by @neddo.bsky.social @mkhochb.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Moreover, AGI might also require social interactions to become a reality, where cultural evolution (and extended mind) play a major role. It is not by chance that brain and culture evolved together, allowing complex minds to emerge @anilseth.bsky.social @mitibennett.bsky.social
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An evolutionary perspective is much required to truly understand consciousness, how it originates and what clases we might find. We proposed a space of possible cognitions and did a comparative analysis
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Can general artificial intelligence emerge by not following the evolution of complex brains? In this 2022 paper with @brigan.bsky.social we argued that embodiment, mind reading (mirror systems), mental time traveling... are necessary conditions
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Is 3I/Atlas anything other than a comet? It’s remarkable how much bullshit has spread in recent months thanks to Avi Loeb’s sensational claims & how many journalists & influencers have taken the bait. Thanks @setiinstitute.bsky.social for fighting misinformation eartharxiv.org/repository/v...
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Gràcies!

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Honored to receive the 2024 Outstanding Publication Award from the Intl Soc for Artificial Life @alife2025.bsky.social for our @royalsocietypublishing.org ublishing.org paper “Fundamental Constraints to the Logic of Living Systems” @sfiscience.bsky.social
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How does life construct itself from within, and how might we learn to emulate its generative logic? Glad to be soon talking and discussing with @philipcball.bsky.social @bertaverd.bsky.social and other great colleagues at this @royalsociety.org event royalsociety.org/science-even...
Generative biology: new approaches to study developmental design principles | Royal Society
Theo Murphy meeting organised by Dr Jake Cornwall-Scoones, Dr Dirk Benzinger, and Professor Sally Lowell.
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Si trobem vida en un altre planeta, serà diferent de la que coneixem? Crear vida al laboratori seguirà les mateixes regles? Pot existir vida sense aigua o ADN? I les IAs del futur, poden aparèixer sense assemblar-se al cervell humà? Vine al @iec.cat i t’ho explico! @melisupf.bsky.social @prbb.org
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It's just me or these guys look a lot like the bad guys from the Hunger Games?
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What if the chaotic-looking patterns in dryland vegetation were actually hiding a deep order? Check our new @pnas.org paper on "disordered hyperuniformity": a hidden structure with big implications for sustainability in Earth’s most fragile ecosystems.https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2504496122
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by Trita Parsi — Reposted by Ricard V. Solé, Jože P. Damijan, Trita Parsi

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He had a huge library (photo) and: "was a genius-level intellectual polymath with an insatiable curiosity. His interests ranged from quantum physics, which he taught himself (...), to whale biology, violins, obscure corners of French history in the early Middle Ages". He was an amazing guy.
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This issue contains contributions from a broad range of disciplines, including philosophy, statistical physics, systems biology, thermodynamics, synthetic biology, geochemistry and artificial life. All started with a workshop at @sfiscience.bsky.social @julipereto.bsky.social @artemyte.bsky.social
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How dit life originate in our planet? How can we create it in the lab?Our @royalsocietypublishing.org Theme Issue "Origins of Life: the possible and the actual", coedited with @sfiscience.bsky.social C Kempes and Susan Stepney is out! royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202... @manlius.bsky.social
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: Vol 380, No 1936
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Looking forward to speak at this @embo.org Workshop event meetings.embo.org/event/25-mul... to explore the origins of multicellular complexity along with great colleagues @multicellgenome.bsky.social @wcratcliff.bsky.social @viktri08.bsky.social I will be discussing synthetic multicellularity.
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Jane Goodall was my first childhood hero, as I loved animals as a kid and was inspired by her story. I still remember the National Geographic specials about her. RIP.
Jane Goodall reaches out and touches a small monkey.
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Congratulations to you both. This is a beautifully written piece that's really enjoyable to read. It brings evolution and agency together (not a trivial task) in such an exciting way and will surely inspire many others interested in agency, evolution and complexity.
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What is agency? How did it emerge through evolution? Why is it key to understanding complexity? Check out this brilliant Open Access book by my dear colleagues Alvaro Moreno & @julipereto.bsky.social. A deep exploration of a crucial concept. Highly recommended! link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
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