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Eric Holloway
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September 21, 2020
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Evolution And Artificial Intelligence Face The Same Basic Problem

Think of the word ladder game, where we transform one word into another by changing only one letter at a time
Eric Holloway
September 21, 2020
Artificial Intelligence
Without knowledge about the goal and how to get there, it rapidly becomes first difficult and then completely impossible to reach the goal. Read More ›
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Robert J. Marks
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April 23, 2020
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COVID-19: How 900 Bytes Changed the World

Robert J. Marks and Daniel Andrés Díaz-Pachón
April 23, 2020

Human biology is so finely tuned that less than a kilobyte of information can stop the world. Robert J. Marks and Dr. Daniel Andrés Díaz-Pachón discuss COVID-19, DNA, and information. Show Notes 01:09 | Introducing Dr. Daniel Andrés Díaz-Pachón, Research Assistant Professor in the Division of Biostatistics at the University of Miami and Senior Researcher at the Evolutionary Informatics Lab…

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Denyse O'Leary
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June 18, 2019
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There Is a Glitch in the Description of DNA as “Software”

In contemporary culture, we are asked to believe - in an impressive break with observed reality - that the code wrote itself
Denyse O'Leary
June 18, 2019
Philosophy of Mind

Mainstream studies are funded in order to find out why much of the public doubts a materialist account of our origins. Despite the immense implausibility of that account, in the light of evidence, studies are not funded in order to find out why anyone does believe it. Why is that?

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Mind Matters
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October 25, 2018
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How a Computer Programmer looks at DNA

And finds it to be "amazing" code
Mind Matters
October 25, 2018
Philosophy of Mind, Social Factors
From 2006 through 2017, Dutch entrepreneur and software developer Bert Hubert contributed from time to time to a web page where he listed many of the ways the workings of DNA can be likened to coding decisions by programmers. Read More ›