Complexity Cat 🐱

Beyond characterizing life using a list of qualitative properties, a second challenge is to be able to capture those properties using quantitative tools. Can we capture the basic characteristics of life in a set of equations?/1 🤔💭🦠 #complexitycat 🐈‍⬛ amahury.github.io/posts/unified-…

As you know I'm obsessed with power laws in biology, which is a biological consequence of fundamental principles, like energy conservation from the first law of thermodynamics. Geoffrey West showed how highly optimized biological networks—think blood vessels or respiratory…

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Mark Newman's research is on statistical physics and complex systems, with primary focus on networked systems, including social, biological, and computer networks, which are studied using a combination of empirical methods, analysis, and computer simulation. #ComplexNetworks2025

I’m building a new team at @GoogleDeepMind to work on Open-Ended Discovery! We’re looking for strong Research Scientists and Research Engineers to help us push the frontier of autonomously discovering novel artifacts such as new knowledge, capabilities, or algorithms, in an…

What will society think about AI consciousness? Lessons from the animal case Science & Society by Lucius Caviola, Jeff Sebo, & Jonathan Birch, tinyurl.com/5desw2rp

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Cognition all the way down! Biology’s next great horizon is to understand cells, tissues and organisms as agents with agendas (even if unthinking ones) ⁦@drmichaellevin⁩ @danieldennett #Cognition #diverseintelligences #cells #embodiedintelligence share.google/tOblRzIJ84QdQ2…

From philosophy to science, metaphysics to psychology, the idea of 'nothing' is central to the universe, existence & experience as a whole. Parmenides argued that non-being’s impossible because thinking about nothing is still something | Peter van Inwagen iai.tv/video/the-limi…

In our first review, scientists revisit how physical forces shape collective #AnimalBehavior, revealing how individual-environment coupling underlies group dynamics across taxa — from fish schools to ant rafts. 🐟 🐜 🔗 go.aps.org/4lUbDGv #CollectiveBehavior

Luís Bettencourt focuses on the theory and modeling of complex systems and the processes that underlie the structure and growth of cities. He connects interdisciplinary concepts and mathematics with new technologies and data to create new systems’ theory. #ComplexNetworks2025

Over the last century, we have developed multiple narratives to characterize life. One of them, physical biosemiotics, has been in the shadows for the last few decades despite its powerful ideas for distinguishing life from non-life. #complexitycat ./1 🐈‍⬛ amahury.github.io/posts/distingu…

Doesn’t it feel strange that we’re building more and more “intelligent “ machines but learning surprisingly little about intelligence in the process? Maybe this is part of the bitter lesson. Maybe the lesson of AI will be that we can create something we do not understand.

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Any literature on syntactic and semantic adaptivity relative to the symbol grounding problem, which actually considers this as a construction problem? Even in embedded robotics, it largely seems that symbol grounding is "solved" (it is of course rather explained away)

Deep in a hot spring at Yellowstone National Park resides a bacterium that does what life really shouldn’t be able to do: It breathes oxygen and sulfur at the same time. @buehlersciwri reports: quantamagazine.org/the-cells-that…