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“Organisms are algorithms” says Harrari. In biology, so many organisms exhibit such great complexity but they are all similar calculators constantly processing biochemical processes of calculation. Feelings are a process of biochemical calculation shaped by millions of years of natural selection. Organisms collect the data with their senses, calculate the probabilities very fast and the answer appears not as a number but as a feeling or emotion. | “Organisms are algorithms” says Harrari. In biology, so many organisms exhibit such great complexity but they are all similar calculators constantly processing biochemical processes of calculation. Feelings are a process of biochemical calculation shaped by millions of years of natural selection. Organisms collect the data with their senses, calculate the probabilities very fast and the answer appears not as a number but as a feeling or emotion. | ||
For me, computation would be a dealing strategy or another language to allow us to understand or solve problems. We can compute natural phenomena and create models in some extend but this doesn’t mean we can compute everything. This could only be a tool for understanding or looking things. | For me, computation would be a dealing strategy or another language to allow us to understand or solve problems. We can compute natural phenomena and create models in some extend but this doesn’t mean we can compute everything. This could only be a tool for understanding or looking things. I think the urge to look for simple rules are the result of the desire to make sense of the world we live. We assume that that there is a meaning somewhere and we try to find it but I think this seeking is nonsensical. | ||
I think the urge to look for simple rules are the result of the desire to make sense of the world we live. We assume that that there is a meaning somewhere and we try to find it but I think this seeking is nonsensical. | |||
The idea of simple algorithms generating complex structures is very similar to compression algorithms. All the models and abstractions can be seen as compression algorithm. It compress a general structure into a simple fascinating rule. Every abstraction, at the same time, reject something about reality. Just like simulation allegory in Borges tale; they tried to draw the best map for the Empire and draw up a map so detailed that it ends up exactly covering the territory. If the map doesnt cover the territory then it has to ignore something. | The idea of simple algorithms generating complex structures is very similar to compression algorithms. All the models and abstractions can be seen as compression algorithm. It compress a general structure into a simple fascinating rule. Every abstraction, at the same time, reject something about reality. Just like simulation allegory in Borges tale; they tried to draw the best map for the Empire and draw up a map so detailed that it ends up exactly covering the territory. If the map doesnt cover the territory then it has to ignore something. | ||