@DrYohanJohn @InfantSaturn @C4COMPUTATION Also, here's a deliciously heretical paper on genetic mutation as obeying a hill-climbing algorithm by Adi Livnat of @UofHaifa, which he presented at SFI in 2018 - bolstering the case that "randomness" is a matter
“…argue that genes used together are fused together; that simplification leads to complexity; and that evolution and learning are conceptually linked.” https://t.co/BerrGXjixK
@LuisZaman Mutations aren't random, a thread 1/1 https://t.co/tBNQtqrkLu
@erikphoel Fuel for your validation: https://t.co/QHnsHn6YFY
"while the notion of random mutation means that there is nothing of importance to be studied about the causes of mutation...the concept of non-accidental mutation ...implies instead a whole world of biological mechanisms open to investigation" https://t.c
@ole_b_peters @BenTormey Here to recommend a paper I saw presented at SFI's #DevoBias2018 that proposes "random" mutations are actually Hebbian learning at the level of gene expression. Fusion of genes like phonemes. Seems to me this trashes the "Structur
@jmanooch @mikha_ehl @drmichaellevin @metadiogenes Similar problems/questions seem only to arise in discussions of concepts like "random mutation" when people insist that natural selection only happens for agents at one level of only biological systems. T
RT @michaelgarfield: @EamonnDwyer @HelenaMiton @EES_update Also, thanks for another opportunity to recommend this paper by Adi Livnat of @U…
@EamonnDwyer @HelenaMiton @EES_update Also, thanks for another opportunity to recommend this paper by Adi Livnat of @UofHaifa: https://t.co/QHnsHnozxw
@pyrrhicascent Pardon the delay: https://t.co/oThfD6PYft
@Greenbackd @farnamjake1 @sfiscience @slatestarcodex ...are necessary. But this is a flat zone on the landscape at the level of the organism, and *still a hill to climb* at the level of the gene. i.e., fundamental research is crucial, as a hedged bet (se
@AdrianLeeOliver @SimonDeDeo @RealtimeAI @sfiscience Simon, have you read Adi Livnat's argument for Interaction-Based Evolution and functional coupling in gene regulatory networks through routine simultaneous expression? This is behavior-to-genetics, dire
RT @sfiscience: 2/2 ...so we get a hint at why "the uncanny efficacy of mathematics" AND a potential revelatory link between #mutation & #…
2/2 ...so we get a hint at why "the uncanny efficacy of mathematics" AND a potential revelatory link between #mutation & #learning *at the same time* Livnat's paper: https://t.co/oThfD77zE3 Related research (diff authors) in this @QuantaMagazine pi
RT @EES_update: This paper is a great summary of Livnat's position: "Simplification, innateness, and the absorption of meaning from context…
RT @EES_update: This paper is a great summary of Livnat's position: "Simplification, innateness, and the absorption of meaning from context…
RT @EES_update: This paper is a great summary of Livnat's position: "Simplification, innateness, and the absorption of meaning from context…
RT @EES_update: This paper is a great summary of Livnat's position: "Simplification, innateness, and the absorption of meaning from context…
RT @EES_update: This paper is a great summary of Livnat's position: "Simplification, innateness, and the absorption of meaning from context…
RT @sfiscience: #IBE (interaction-based #evolution) makes empirically-testable predictions that #mutation is driven by #learning at the gen…
Simplification, Innateness, and the Absorption of Meaning from Context: How Novelty Arises from Gradual Network Evolution | SpringerLink https://t.co/koqBuwNACu
RT @sfiscience: #IBE (interaction-based #evolution) makes empirically-testable predictions that #mutation is driven by #learning at the gen…
RT @sfiscience: #IBE (interaction-based #evolution) makes empirically-testable predictions that #mutation is driven by #learning at the gen…
RT @sfiscience: #IBE (interaction-based #evolution) makes empirically-testable predictions that #mutation is driven by #learning at the gen…
RT @sfiscience: #IBE (interaction-based #evolution) makes empirically-testable predictions that #mutation is driven by #learning at the gen…
RT @EES_update: This paper is a great summary of Livnat's position: "Simplification, innateness, and the absorption of meaning from context…
"things can only be simplified as long as they keep working"
RT @EES_update: This paper is a great summary of Livnat's position: "Simplification, innateness, and the absorption of meaning from context…
RT @sfiscience: #IBE (interaction-based #evolution) makes empirically-testable predictions that #mutation is driven by #learning at the gen…
RT @sfiscience: #IBE (interaction-based #evolution) makes empirically-testable predictions that #mutation is driven by #learning at the gen…
RT @sfiscience: #IBE (interaction-based #evolution) makes empirically-testable predictions that #mutation is driven by #learning at the gen…
RT @EES_update: This paper is a great summary of Livnat's position: "Simplification, innateness, and the absorption of meaning from context…
RT @sfiscience: #IBE (interaction-based #evolution) makes empirically-testable predictions that #mutation is driven by #learning at the gen…
RT @sfiscience: #IBE (interaction-based #evolution) makes empirically-testable predictions that #mutation is driven by #learning at the gen…
#IBE (interaction-based #evolution) makes empirically-testable predictions that #mutation is driven by #learning at the genetic level - a total upending of the dogma in #biology that it's a random process... @HaifaUniversity @templeton_fdn
This paper is a great summary of Livnat's position: "Simplification, innateness, and the absorption of meaning from context: How novelty arises from gradual network evolution" https://t.co/lSzNxSRBgO A 3rd way to think about mutation: non-random & non
Simplification, Innateness, and the Absorption of Meaning from Context: How Novelty Arises from Gradual Network… https://t.co/fZGE8ARAdk
Simplification, Innateness, & Absorption of Meaning from Context: How Novelty Arises from Gradual Network Evolution https://t.co/BMcp41J1M0
Simplification, Innateness, and the Absorption of Meaning from Context: How Novelty Arises from Gradual Network… https://t.co/fXxKgaQNCZ