what it is to be alive, the fundamental physics of life, AI and why we are far from understanding ourselves youtu.be/QHp3Gzkb_GY?...
How life builds the Universe | Sara Imari Walker
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what it is to be alive, the fundamental physics of life, AI and why we are far from understanding ourselves youtu.be/QHp3Gzkb_GY?...
How life builds the Universe | Sara Imari Walker
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Of all our universe’s creations, life is the most profoundly significant because it is what allows our universe to create
This is a transformative time to be alive, I do not take it for granted that I exist now: my hope is that those of us alive now do as much as we can to enable ourselves and our descendants to further the creative potential of life, rebelling against a universe that is indifferent without us
This is a transformative time to be alive, I do not take it for granted that I exist now: my hope is that those of us alive now do as much as we can to enable ourselves and our descendants to further the creative potential of life, rebelling against a universe that is indifferent without us
Among the most amazing things about existence is we are the opportunity to ask why
Among the most amazing things about existence is we are the opportunity to ask why
Currently hiring 1-2 postdocs to work on origins of life theory/experiment, assembly theory, life detection, with me and @leecronin.bsky.social, positions are mostly based at ASU but also some time could be spent at U. Glasgow, Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/176391 Please help us spread the word!
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Currently hiring 1-2 postdocs to work on origins of life theory/experiment, assembly theory, life detection, with me and @leecronin.bsky.social, positions are mostly based at ASU but also some time could be spent at U. Glasgow, Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/176391 Please help us spread the word!
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Science is a cultural institution that allows our species to directly confront our epistemological limits. It’s easy to think the criticism & controversy in science is the eclipsing battle but the only battle that really matters is the one at the boundary of what we know
Spontaneous, infinite physics leaves life without definition or meaning. Finite, recursive physics makes life definable.
Food for thought in this piece by @saraimari.bsky.social on how AI will affect science. Warning: contains philosophy! www.noemamag.com/the-death-of...
The Death Of The Scientist | NOEMA
Will AI kill science, or will it foster a scientific revolution? The answer depends on something no one knows: What is science?
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In a universe where everything exists, nothing is possible
In a universe where everything exists, nothing is possible
We have no idea what alien intelligences are like (or if they even exist at all). What little we know about what is “alien” or “intelligent” is put in stark relief if AI is truly the most exotic ‘intelligences’ we can imagine, when these are a mirror of the human niche
"creativity" emerges in wake of deep distress felt when one's experience of reality is not our consensus - what remains is no other choice but to disrupt the consensus
"The death of the scientist is the loss of the inner world that creates an idea, but this is also when the idea can become shared, and the inner world of the societal system of debate and controversy comes alive" www.noemamag.com/the-death-of...
The Death Of The Scientist | NOEMA
Will AI kill science, or will it foster a scientific revolution? The answer depends on something no one knows: What is science?
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“If we misunderstand what science is, mistaking automation of method for the human project of collectively constructing, debating & refining the symbolic representations through which we make sense of reality, AI may foretell the death of science.” — @saraimari.bsky.social #science #ai
The Death Of The Scientist | NOEMA
Will AI kill science, or will it foster a scientific revolution? The answer depends on something no one knows: What is science?
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Language remains the most profound technology we humans ever developed because its implication is that our mind is shared
On ontological anarchy in assembly theory … really enjoyed the deconstruction of both reductionism and emergence in this piece by Michael Ardoline. I will happily take ontological anarchy over reductionism or emergence any day www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf...
Life Against Smallism: Iterability, Assembly Theory, and the Origin of Ideality - published on September 24, 2025
That the order of explanation tracks the relative scale of objects involved and that the smaller objects must explain the larger is a common, often unchallenged assumption in the metaphysics of scienc...
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On ontological anarchy in assembly theory … really enjoyed the deconstruction of both reductionism and emergence in this piece by Michael Ardoline. I will happily take ontological anarchy over reductionism or emergence any day www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf...
Life Against Smallism: Iterability, Assembly Theory, and the Origin of Ideality - published on September 24, 2025
That the order of explanation tracks the relative scale of objects involved and that the smaller objects must explain the larger is a common, often unchallenged assumption in the metaphysics of scienc...
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This year's issue includes: - Essays from @blaiseaguera.bsky.social, @kalladomcdowell.bsky.social, Benjamin Bratton, and @saraimari.bsky.social consider how to define and differentiate intelligence, computation, and identity in the face of synthetic minds.
"Information and the Emergence of Complexity" I'm looking forward to an IAIS dialogue with @saraimari.bsky.social, moderated by Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic. Wednesday, November 19th, 2025 17:30 (CET) | 11:30 AM (EST) meet.google.com/gqm-frcd-apg... More info: sites.google.com/view/iais-in...
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As a species we see reality through mental models, the deepest rooted is the socially constructed one we feel like we live inside which we call our own “mind”. Seeing ourselves outside of the models we currently live inside will be one of the greatest challenges for science in the coming centuries
If you are too confident in your representational maps of reality you will miss seeing reality
What we communicate are models of the world, not the world.