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31 May 2026
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Michael Levin — holds since 2026-05-31 — tap for who they are
Same subject: There is no distinct boundary between chemical-physical machines and cognitive agents. — tap to centre the map on it There is no distinct boundary between chemical-physical machines and cognitive agents. Last stated 5 months ago
31 May 2026
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Michael Levin — holds since 2026-05-31 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Unlike physics, biology's complexity and nonlinearity make a brute-force approach to knowledge creation necessary rather than one based on writing down equations. — tap to centre the map on it Unlike physics, biology's complexity and nonlinearity make a brute-force approach to knowledge creation necessary rather than one based on writing down equations. Last stated a year ago
29 Jun 2025
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Elliot Hershberg — holds since 2025-06-29 — 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: Life may be an inevitable, emergent property of any random dynamical system with a Markov blanket. — tap to centre the map on it 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: Evolution of agential materials has different dynamics than the evolution of passive substrates. — tap to centre the map on it Evolution of agential materials has different dynamics than the evolution of passive substrates. Last stated 5 months ago
31 May 2026
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Michael Levin — holds since 2026-05-31 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Biology's endless forms arise inevitably from adaptive evolution interacting with computational irreducibility, not from natural selection alone. — tap to centre the map on it Biology's endless forms arise inevitably from adaptive evolution interacting with computational irreducibility, not from natural selection alone. Last stated a week ago
23 Oct 2026
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Stephen Wolfram — holds since 2026-10-23 — 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: Biology has computational irreducibility at its core, so biological phenomena depend inevitably on history. — tap to centre the map on it Biology has computational irreducibility at its core, so biological phenomena depend inevitably on history. Last stated a week ago
23 Oct 2026
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Stephen Wolfram — holds since 2026-10-23 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A language model's apparent mind is mostly our own bias: it predicts text, and leverages our evolved habit of attributing intentionality to anything that acts human. — tap to centre the map on it A language model's apparent mind is mostly our own bias: it predicts text, and leverages our evolved habit of attributing intentionality to anything that acts human. Last stated 3 years ago
22 Apr 2024
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Sean Carroll — holds since 2024-04-22 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A selection signal can be validated without a significance threshold, by measuring how far it is enriched for mutations an entirely independent study says affect a trait. — tap to centre the map on it A selection signal can be validated without a significance threshold, by measuring how far it is enriched for mutations an entirely independent study says affect a trait. Last stated 6 months ago
8 May 2026
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David Reich — holds since 2026-05-08 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A tribe of loyal, self-sacrificing members would defeat most other tribes, which is natural selection — tap to centre the map on it A tribe of loyal, self-sacrificing members would defeat most other tribes, which is natural selection
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Charles Darwin — holds since c. 1871–1874 — 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 3 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
Same subject: A persistently rising dividend yield eventually forces capital appreciation as the market rerates the stock. — tap to centre the map on it A persistently rising dividend yield eventually forces capital appreciation as the market rerates the stock. Last stated 8 months ago
3 Mar 2026
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Sanjay Bakshi — holds since 2026-03-03 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A proof and an explanation are different things, and a theorem can stay an unsolved expository problem long after it is proved. — tap to centre the map on it A proof and an explanation are different things, and a theorem can stay an unsolved expository problem long after it is proved. Last stated 4 months ago
30 Jun 2026
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Grant Sanderson — holds since 2026-06-30 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A stream of AI-written papers with any error rate at all becomes insufferable, because finding the error costs more than the paper is worth even at ninety-nine percent. — tap to centre the map on it A stream of AI-written papers with any error rate at all becomes insufferable, because finding the error costs more than the paper is worth even at ninety-nine percent. Last stated 4 months ago
30 Jun 2026
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Grant Sanderson — holds since 2026-06-30 — tap for who they are
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Morphogenesis is a fundamentally cognitive process rather than a purely mechanical one.
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There is no distinct boundary between chemical-physical machines and cognitive agents.
Holds
Unlike physics, biology's complexity and nonlinearity make a brute-force approach to knowledge creation necessary rather than one based on writing down equations.
Holds
Biological self-organisation is less remarkable than it seems, and almost inevitable given local interactions.
Holds
Life may be an inevitable, emergent property of any random dynamical system with a Markov blanket.
Holds
Evolution of agential materials has different dynamics than the evolution of passive substrates.
Holds
Biology's endless forms arise inevitably from adaptive evolution interacting with computational irreducibility, not from natural selection alone.
Holds
Life is the process by which information structures matter over time and space, and any individual organism is only one instance of a lineage.
Holds
Biology has computational irreducibility at its core, so biological phenomena depend inevitably on history.
Holds
A language model's apparent mind is mostly our own bias: it predicts text, and leverages our evolved habit of attributing intentionality to anything that acts human.
Holds
A selection signal can be validated without a significance threshold, by measuring how far it is enriched for mutations an entirely independent study says affect a trait.
Holds
A tribe of loyal, self-sacrificing members would defeat most other tribes, which is natural selection
Last stated c. 1871–1874
Holds
Declining many-worlds because it extrapolates past what we can observe is methodologically respectable and still a failure of nerve.
Holds
Decoherence has not yet satisfactorily solved the measurement problem and does not restore local causality.
Holds
Export controls cannot stop China from training frontier models; what they can do is cap how much AI China gets to run.
Holds
A persistently rising dividend yield eventually forces capital appreciation as the market rerates the stock.
Holds
A proof and an explanation are different things, and a theorem can stay an unsolved expository problem long after it is proved.
Holds
A stream of AI-written papers with any error rate at all becomes insufferable, because finding the error costs more than the paper is worth even at ninety-nine percent.
Holds