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Read this korrent: Life may be an inevitable, emergent property of any random dynamical system with a Markov blanket.
Life may be an inevitable, emergent property of any random dynamical system with a Markov blanket.
Last stated 13 years ago
3 Jul 2013
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Karl Friston — holds since 2013-07-03 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Any ergodic system with a Markov blanket will almost surely behave in lifelike ways; nothing suggests a special role for carbon. — tap to centre the map on it
Any ergodic system with a Markov blanket will almost surely behave in lifelike ways; nothing suggests a special role for carbon.
Last stated 13 years ago
3 Jul 2013
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Karl Friston — holds since 2013-07-03 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Biological self-organisation is less remarkable than it seems, and almost inevitable given local interactions. — tap to centre the map on it
Biological self-organisation is less remarkable than it seems, and almost inevitable given local interactions.
Last stated 13 years ago
3 Jul 2013
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Karl Friston — holds since 2013-07-03 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Non-equilibrium physics will not explain life, and entropy has almost nothing to do with it. — tap to centre the map on it
Non-equilibrium physics will not explain life, and entropy has almost nothing to do with it.
Last stated 2 years ago
13 Jun 2024
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Sara Walker — holds since 2024-06-13 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Life is the process by which information structures matter over time and space, and any individual organism is only one instance of a lineage. — tap to centre the map on it
Life is the process by which information structures matter over time and space, and any individual organism is only one instance of a lineage.
Last stated 2 years ago
13 Jun 2024
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Sara Walker — holds since 2024-06-13 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Life is not fighting the second law of thermodynamics; it surfs increasing entropy and depends on it to hold itself together. — tap to centre the map on it
Life is not fighting the second law of thermodynamics; it surfs increasing entropy and depends on it to hold itself together.
Last stated 2 years ago
22 Apr 2024
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Sean Carroll — holds since 2024-04-22 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Because two generic mechanisms reproduce the observed distributions, large networks are governed by self-organizing rules that do not depend on what the network is made of. — tap to centre the map on it
Because two generic mechanisms reproduce the observed distributions, large networks are governed by self-organizing rules that do not depend on what the network is made of.
Last stated 27 years ago
21 Oct 1999
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Réka Albert — holds since 1999-10-21 — tap for who they are
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Albert-László Barabási — holds since 1999-10-21 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Making a change within a complex system tends to produce unforeseen and unintended consequences. — tap to centre the map on it
Making a change within a complex system tends to produce unforeseen and unintended consequences.
Last stated 4 years ago
30 May 2022
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Steve Coast — holds since 2022-05-30 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The behavior of the simplest computational rules is permanently foundational, not merely significant for the present. — tap to centre the map on it
The behavior of the simplest computational rules is permanently foundational, not merely significant for the present.
Last stated 9 months ago
12 Jan 2026
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Stephen Wolfram — holds since 2026-01-12 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A system built from ordinary, mundane components can still give rise to genuine higher-level collective organization, as with ant colonies and pheromone chemistry. — tap to centre the map on it
A system built from ordinary, mundane components can still give rise to genuine higher-level collective organization, as with ant colonies and pheromone chemistry.
Last stated a month ago
31 Aug 2026
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Venkatesh Rao — holds since 2026-08-31 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Large real-world networks share one property: the number of connections per node follows a scale-free power law. — tap to centre the map on it
Large real-world networks share one property: the number of connections per node follows a scale-free power law.
Last stated 27 years ago
21 Oct 1999
RA
Réka Albert — holds since 1999-10-21 — tap for who they are
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Albert-László Barabási — holds since 1999-10-21 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Outcomes follow power laws, and outlier math rules all. — tap to centre the map on it
Outcomes follow power laws, and outlier math rules all.
Last stated 3 years ago
by 10 May 2023
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Nabeel S. Qureshi — holds since 2023-05-10 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A black hole is featureless in the way a fundamental particle is: charge, mass and spin are the whole of it, and no two differ in anything else. — tap to centre the map on it
A black hole is featureless in the way a fundamental particle is: charge, mass and spin are the whole of it, and no two differ in anything else.
Last stated a year ago
5 May 2025
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Janna Levin — holds since 2025-05-05 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A black hole is its event horizon, not the matter crushed to a point at the centre. — tap to centre the map on it
A black hole is its event horizon, not the matter crushed to a point at the centre.
Last stated a year ago
5 May 2025
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Janna Levin — holds since 2025-05-05 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A far-fetched idea earns its place in physics only when you can go out and look for its observational consequences. — tap to centre the map on it
A far-fetched idea earns its place in physics only when you can go out and look for its observational consequences.
Last stated 3 years ago
3 Dec 2023
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Lisa Randall — holds since 2023-12-03 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Declining many-worlds because it extrapolates past what we can observe is methodologically respectable and still a failure of nerve. — tap to centre the map on it
Declining many-worlds because it extrapolates past what we can observe is methodologically respectable and still a failure of nerve.
Last stated 2 years ago
22 Apr 2024
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Sean Carroll — holds since 2024-04-22 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Decoherence has not yet satisfactorily solved the measurement problem and does not restore local causality. — tap to centre the map on it
Decoherence has not yet satisfactorily solved the measurement problem and does not restore local causality.
Last stated 3 years ago
21 Sept 2023
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Sabine Hossenfelder — holds since 2023-09-21 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Export controls cannot stop China from training frontier models; what they can do is cap how much AI China gets to run. — tap to centre the map on it
Export controls cannot stop China from training frontier models; what they can do is cap how much AI China gets to run.
Last stated 2 years ago
3 Feb 2025
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Nathan Lambert — holds since 2025-02-03 — tap for who they are
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Life may be an inevitable, emergent property of any random dynamical system with a Markov blanket.
Last stated 3 Jul 2013 · 13 years ago
Holds Karl Friston
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Any ergodic system with a Markov blanket will almost surely behave in lifelike ways; nothing suggests a special role for carbon.
Last stated 3 Jul 2013 · 13 years ago
Holds Karl Friston
Similar wording
Biological self-organisation is less remarkable than it seems, and almost inevitable given local interactions.
Last stated 3 Jul 2013 · 13 years ago
Holds Karl Friston
Similar wording
Non-equilibrium physics will not explain life, and entropy has almost nothing to do with it.
Last stated 13 Jun 2024 · 2 years ago
Holds Sara Walker
Similar wording
Life is the process by which information structures matter over time and space, and any individual organism is only one instance of a lineage.
Last stated 13 Jun 2024 · 2 years ago
Holds Sara Walker
Similar wording
Life is not fighting the second law of thermodynamics; it surfs increasing entropy and depends on it to hold itself together.
Last stated 22 Apr 2024 · 2 years ago
Holds Sean Carroll
Similar wording
Because two generic mechanisms reproduce the observed distributions, large networks are governed by self-organizing rules that do not depend on what the network is made of.
Last stated 21 Oct 1999 · 27 years ago
Holds Réka Albert Albert-László Barabási
Similar wording
Making a change within a complex system tends to produce unforeseen and unintended consequences.
Last stated 30 May 2022 · 4 years ago
Holds Steve Coast
Similar wording
The behavior of the simplest computational rules is permanently foundational, not merely significant for the present.
Last stated 12 Jan 2026 · 9 months ago
Holds Stephen Wolfram
Same subject: network science
A system built from ordinary, mundane components can still give rise to genuine higher-level collective organization, as with ant colonies and pheromone chemistry.
Last stated 31 Aug 2026 · a month ago
Holds Venkatesh Rao
Same subject: network science
Large real-world networks share one property: the number of connections per node follows a scale-free power law.
Last stated 21 Oct 1999 · 27 years ago
Holds Réka Albert Albert-László Barabási
Same subject: network science
Outcomes follow power laws, and outlier math rules all.
Last stated by 10 May 2023 · 3 years ago
Holds Nabeel S. Qureshi
Same subject: physics
A black hole is featureless in the way a fundamental particle is: charge, mass and spin are the whole of it, and no two differ in anything else.
Last stated 5 May 2025 · a year ago
Holds Janna Levin
Same subject: physics
A black hole is its event horizon, not the matter crushed to a point at the centre.
Last stated 5 May 2025 · a year ago
Holds Janna Levin
Same subject: physics
A far-fetched idea earns its place in physics only when you can go out and look for its observational consequences.
Last stated 3 Dec 2023 · 3 years ago
Holds Lisa Randall
Same subject: quantum mechanics
Declining many-worlds because it extrapolates past what we can observe is methodologically respectable and still a failure of nerve.
Last stated 22 Apr 2024 · 2 years ago
Holds Sean Carroll
Same subject: quantum mechanics
Decoherence has not yet satisfactorily solved the measurement problem and does not restore local causality.
Last stated 21 Sept 2023 · 3 years ago
Holds Sabine Hossenfelder
Same subject: quantum mechanics
Export controls cannot stop China from training frontier models; what they can do is cap how much AI China gets to run.
Last stated 3 Feb 2025 · 2 years ago
Holds Nathan Lambert