life inspired

The Logical Mechanisms of Life

Labels: #ArtificialLife, #BiologicalTheory, #ComplexSystems, #GeneralSystems, #SystemsScience, #Theory

Welcome to Life-Inspired, ISE483/SSIE583 Spring 2026 Class. On this blog you will see many types of posts related to the class, from links to multimedia materials used in class, to breaking research on related topics. The updated first chapter of the course's lecture notes is now available: ISE483/SSIE583: What is Life?

You can also listen to the AI-produced podcast or video of this chapter via Google NoteBookLM. Note, the AIpodcast and video does not substitute the lecture notes at all! it brings up many connections not really in the argument, it is provided for fun only.

Labels: #artificallife, #bioinspiredcomputing, #ComplexSystems, #evolutionarysystems, #life

"What vindicates the complex-systems people, as I see it, is the recognition of “emergent behaviors,” unexpected phenomena that arise from seemingly simple interactions." James Gleick, Full interview by Daniel Drake at New York Review of Books.

Labels: #ComplexSystems, #emergence, #reductionism

"What if the same physics that governs quantum particles could also explain the peculiar patterns observed in protein-protein interactions, in complex brains, in social relationships, in the Internet infrastructure or the intricate web of air traffic routes? This is not science fiction: it is a mathematical framework, based on thermodynamics and information theory, that has been used for decades to describe entanglement in quantum systems." See an explanation in the great Complexity Thoughts newsletter and the full paper at Nature Physics.

Labels: #ComplexSystems, #information, #thermodynamics