Tuesday, May 17, 2016
more material than materialism...,
By CNu at May 17, 2016 0 comments
Labels: as above-so below , computationalism , scientific mystery
Thursday, March 10, 2016
deepmind stays winning...,
Does AlphaGo Mean Artificial Intelligence Is the Real Deal?
By CNu at March 10, 2016 0 comments
Labels: AI , computationalism , neuromancy , tactical evolution
most theories of consciousness are worse than wrong..,
The phlegm theory has more problems than just a few factual errors. After all, suppose you had a beaker of phlegm and injected it into a person. What exactly is the mechanism that leads to a lazy personality? The proposal resonates seductively with our intuitions and biases, but it doesn’t explain anything.
In the modern age we can chuckle over medieval naivetĂ©, but we often suffer from similar conceptual confusions. We have our share of phlegm theories, which flatter our intuitions while explaining nothing. They’re compelling, they often convince, but at a deeper level they’re empty.
One corner of science where phlegm theories proliferate is the cognitive neuroscience of consciousness. The brain is a machine that processes information, yet somehow we also have a conscious experience of at least some of that information. How is that possible? What is subjective experience? It’s one of the most important questions in science, possibly the most important, the deepest way of asking: What are we? Yet many of the current proposals, even some that are deep and subtle, are phlegm theories.
By CNu at March 10, 2016 0 comments
Labels: computationalism , FAIL , neuromancy
Sunday, October 04, 2015
hyparchic folding and reality mechanics at the microcosmic scale
By CNu at October 04, 2015 0 comments
Labels: as above-so below , computationalism , microcosmos
Monday, September 28, 2015
CRISPieR
By Dale Asberry at September 28, 2015 0 comments
Labels: computationalism , Genetic Omni Determinism GOD , What IT DO Shawty...
some folding bits - just because...,
The new findings appear in the journal Science Advances.
Until now, viruses have been difficult to classify, said University of Illinois crop sciences and Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology professor Gustavo Caetano-Anollés, who led the new analysis with graduate student Arshan Nasir. In its latest report, the International Committee on the Taxonomy of Viruses recognized seven orders of viruses, based on their shapes and sizes, genetic structure and means of reproducing.
"Under this classification, viral families belonging to the same order have likely diverged from a common ancestral virus," the authors wrote. "However, only 26 (of 104) viral families have been assigned to an order, and the evolutionary relationships of most of them remain unclear."
Part of the confusion stems from the abundance and diversity of viruses. Less than 4,900 viruses have been identified and sequenced so far, even though scientists estimate there are more than a million viral species. Many viruses are tiny -- significantly smaller than bacteria or other microbes -- and contain only a handful of genes. Others, like the recently discovered mimiviruses, are huge, with genomes bigger than those of some bacteria.
The new study focused on the vast repertoire of protein structures, called "folds," that are encoded in the genomes of all cells and viruses. Folds are the structural building blocks of proteins, giving them their complex, three-dimensional shapes. By comparing fold structures across different branches of the tree of life, researchers can reconstruct the evolutionary histories of the folds and of the organisms whose genomes code for them.
By CNu at September 28, 2015 0 comments
Labels: computationalism , Genetic Omni Determinism GOD , What IT DO Shawty...
Sunday, September 27, 2015
fractally uncompressing terraforming machinery - some bits doing the unfolding, other bits waiting to be unfolded
Wiley | The nature of the role played by mobile elements in host genome evolution is reassessed considering numerous recent developments in many areas of biology. It is argued that easy popular appellations such as “selfish DNA” and “junk DNA” may be either inaccurate or misleading and that a more enlightened view of the transposable element-host relationship encompasses a continuum from extreme parasitism to mutualism. Transposable elements are potent, broad spectrum, endogenous mutators that are subject to the influence of chance as well as selection at several levels of biological organization. Of particular interest are transposable element traits that early evolve neutrally at the host level but at a later stage of evolution are co-opted for new host functions [Emphasis mine, Ed.].
By Dale Asberry at September 27, 2015 0 comments
Labels: computationalism , Genetic Omni Determinism GOD , What IT DO Shawty , What IT DO Shawty...
where there is water, there will be a deduplicated and compressed backup fractal terraforming system...,
By CNu at September 27, 2015 0 comments
Labels: computationalism , Genetic Omni Determinism GOD , What Now?
Sunday, May 17, 2015
quantum computing fitna _______________?
By CNu at May 17, 2015 2 comments
Labels: computationalism
first computational genomics, now computational ethology...,
By CNu at May 17, 2015 0 comments
Labels: computationalism , ethology
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