Category: Evolution
What’s holding artificial life back from open-ended evolution?
Evolutionary artificial life systems have demonstrated many exciting behaviors. However, there is a general consensus that these systems are missing some element of the consistent evolutionary innovation that we see in nature.
Plantoid: the blockchain-based art that makes itself
Plantoid is a self-creating, self-propagating artwork system that uses blockchain technology to gather and manage the resources it needs to become real.
Evolution Will Change How You See The World — Evolutionary Thinking As Spirituality
“Evolution Will Change How You See The World.” may be the single most beautiful and profound video I have ever seen.
DISRUPTIVE EVOLUTION — Transhumanism and Survival of the Quickest
Is Transhumanism an exercise in Unnatural Selection?
The Three Epochs of Humanity
In these rapidly changing times the visions of the future fluctuate between a dystopian scenario of a rapid rise in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the demise of humanity as we know it to a more utopian view of a happy marriage between developing Artificial Intelligence, human augmentation, nanotechnology and the human species.
Notable Paper: The Formal Darwinism Project
Our new pick for a “notable” paper is “The formal darwinism project in outline” by Alan Grafen, published in Biology and Philosophy on 25 January 2014.
Vital Questions — A Book Review
Life has been on earth about 4 billion years. If we think of each billion as a term at college, then for its Freshman, Sophomore and Junior years, life majored in chemistry.
Fertility is Kaput, but Life Goes On
The mystery is not that we die after we lose our fertility; the mystery is why natural selection has permitted us to lose our fertility.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: Universal Progressive Evolution
Is evolution a theory, a system or a hypothesis? It is much more: it is a general condition to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must bow and which they must satisfy henceforth if they are to be thinkable and true. Evolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow.