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"Metabiology" & Digital Philosophy < on 5/27/2011 7:20 PM > | Reply with Quote
I'm no mathematician or physicist, but this sort of idea has always intrigued me. It's interesting to read this interview and consider his purported "clues" of connection between math, physics, and philosophy.
"Pythagoras said “all is number”, God is a mathematician, the Universe is built of one, two, three, four, five."
"They have the entire genome, which is this very big program in a very low level language, which we don’t understand too well. And, on the other hand, we have computer programming languages. Now we have digital software in the natural world, which is biology, and in this artificial world, which is computers. And they are very similar, in a way, so the idea is to take advantage of this analogy and use it to develop a mathematical theory looking at random mutations on computer programs, which hopefully will have something to do with random mutations on DNA."
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Re: "Metabiology" & Digital Philosophy < Reply # 1 on 5/27/2011 7:56 PM > | Reply with Quote
Fascinating topic, indeed.
This kind of reminds me of the ending of Carl Sagan's Contact, in which a message from the universe's creator deliberately hidden deep within the digits of π (Pi).
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Re: "Metabiology" & Digital Philosophy < Reply # 2 on 5/27/2011 11:26 PM > | Reply with Quote
Hawking's declaration that the next phase of human evolution will be engineered evolution, has never been more clear! Exciting, terrifying, and even a bit horrifying
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Re: "Metabiology" & Digital Philosophy < Reply # 3 on 7/5/2011 7:40 PM > | Reply with Quote
I'm weary of traditional math mixing with biology in advanced theories. The failures of human cloning illustrate this (yes there have been human clones, they die of leukemia and genetic disorders, or so I've been told by every geneticist I've had candid conversations with). Organisms are greater than the sum of thier DNA. Only something like chaos theory might work, but it's probably to tricky for it to be applied to a usable model.
It seems kind of pointless to me. Anyone care to explain if I'm not getting on what they're after here?
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