#assemblytheory — Public Fediverse posts
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Thanks for the tip. I just put her book on hold at my library.
She has TONS of videos on the web. Here's one.
Dr. Sara Imari Walker has a cool (LONG) conversation with Dr. Kuhn in a "Closer To Truth" YouTube video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvmYSxxlNn0Here's a short article from about a year ago:
https://theconversation.com/life-modern-physics-cant-explain-it-but-our-new-theory-which-says-time-is-fundamental-might-203129#Life #Emergence #Astrobiology #Physics #Science #Consciousness #Memory #AssemblyTheory https://sunny.garden/@SolaciAlien/114267737083994545
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Expand your minds, kids. Don't need no drugs. Nope. Combinatorics? Might help.
Theoretical physicist and astrobiologist Sara Imari Walker takes on biology, life, the universe, machines, and more.
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A new #ComplexityThougths short essay is out: this time I write about the ongoing debate around the Nature paper on assembly theory. The essay features comments by Sara Imari Walker, Ricard Solè and Hector Zenil, and it's an attempt to provide a balanced overview of what's going on.
https://manlius.substack.com/p/whats-going-on-with-assembly-theory
#ComplexSystems #ComplexityScience #Complexity #AssemblyTheory
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Also, the reference section of this #AssemblyTheory paper is a joke. 29 entries, four of which cite Darwin’s Origin of Species, Newton’s Principia, Arora/Barak’s Computational Complexity, and Bennett’s Universal Touring Machine *as entire books*. You gotta be kidding me.
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Measured explanation and critique of assembly theory and evolution on BBC Inside Science. As @matthewcobb tells it, if you explain something, and people misinterpret or don't understand, then it is usually your fault. Only minor quibble is that not sure "organise" in final summary (by Marnie Chesterton) is best word, "structured" or "complex" better, because first could imply design (and we know where that will go!). #assemblytheory #nature #cronin
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Measured explanation and critique of assembly theory and evolution on BBC Inside Science. As @matthewcobb tells it, if you explain something, and people misinterpret or don't understand, then it is usually your fault. Only minor quibble is that not sure "organise" in final summary (by Marnie Chesterton) is best word, "structured" or "complex" better, because first could imply design (and we know where that will go!). #assemblytheory #nature #cronin
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Measured explanation and critique of assembly theory and evolution on BBC Inside Science. As @matthewcobb tells it, if you explain something, and people misinterpret or don't understand, then it is usually your fault. Only minor quibble is that not sure "organise" in final summary (by Marnie Chesterton) is best word, "structured" or "complex" better, because first could imply design (and we know where that will go!). #assemblytheory #nature #cronin
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Measured explanation and critique of assembly theory and evolution on BBC Inside Science. As @matthewcobb tells it, if you explain something, and people misinterpret or don't understand, then it is usually your fault. Only minor quibble is that not sure "organise" in final summary (by Marnie Chesterton) is best word, "structured" or "complex" better, because first could imply design (and we know where that will go!). #assemblytheory #nature #cronin
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Measured explanation and critique of assembly theory and evolution on BBC Inside Science. As @matthewcobb tells it, if you explain something, and people misinterpret or don't understand, then it is usually your fault. Only minor quibble is that not sure "organise" in final summary (by Marnie Chesterton) is best word, "structured" or "complex" better, because first could imply design (and we know where that will go!). #assemblytheory #nature #cronin
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There might be some merits to this screamingly terrible #AssemblyTheory paper on the #OriginsofLife in #Nature I haven’t been able to catch yet, but it certainly doesn’t help your case when the answer to criticism involves rambling about “virtue signaling,” “getting triggered,” and “offending your worldview” on #Xittler, topped off by the usual misappropriation of Kuhn.
Screenshots from the infernal cesspit taken by me.
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1. “Imagine we land a space probe on one of Jupiters’ moons, take up a sample of material, and find it is full of organic molecules. How can we tell whether those molecules are just randomly assembled goo or the outcome of some evolutionary process taking place on the planet?”
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The information “is in the path,” Walker said, “not the initial conditions.”
#science #AssemblyTheory #life
https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-theory-for-the-assembly-of-life-in-the-universe-20230504/
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#ConstructorTheory and #AssemblyTheory are special cases of #CategoryTheory. Constructor theory considers whether a path exists from one object to another, and assembly theory considers the lengths of paths relative to basis objects.
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A new idea for how to assemble life - If we want to understand complex constructions, such as ourselves, assembly theory says we must account for the entire history of how such entities came to be https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-theory-for-the-assembly-of-life-in-the-universe-20230504/ #science #assemblytheory
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"Modern physics can't explain it—but our new theory, which says time is fundamental, might"
Assembly Theory
"Each new area of fundamental #physics, whether describing space and time (Newton/Einstein), matter and light (quantum mechanics), or heat and work (thermodynamics) has introduced a new concept of time.
But what about #evolution and life? To build novel things, evolution requires time. Endless novelty can only come to be in a universe where time exists and has a clear direction.
To explain life, we therefore need to understand how the complex objects life creates exist in time.
This suggests that assembly theory is indeed capable of testing our hypothesis that life is the only physics that generates complex objects. And we can do so by identifying those objects that are so complex the only physical mechanism to form them is evolution.
https://phys.org/news/2023-04-life-modern-physics-itbut-theory.html
