Cryptographic Nature
by David Krakauer, 2015
„… various forms of regularized randomness, historically encrypt adaptive dynamics.“
Biology as information warfare.
Example:
Virus using another genetic alphabet as camouflage.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/virus-dna-z-bacteriophage-genetic-alphabet-bond-life
This is the basic mechanism to for complexity to unfold: adversarial arms race.
How parasites expand the computational landscape of life
by Luís Seoane and Ricard Solé
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.14339
"host-parasite co-evolution can ignite an explosive race of increasing complexity ..."
Recently a proof was constructed, showing that perfect obfuscation is possible.
I.e. if some organisms eventually manage(d) to pull off this trick, others wouldn‘t even notice.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-scientists-achieve-crown-jewel-of-cryptography-20201110/
To understand, what Krakauer means with “regularised randomness” and “frozen accidents”, read
WHAT IS COMPLEXITY?
by Murray Gell-Mann, 1995
A good background text on algorithmic information theory can be found here:
http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Algorithmic_information_theory
The key idea is that complexity can be best captured by the length of the most concise description of the regularities of a thing.
#complexity #computation #information
Anybody interested in that stuff here?
@FroehlichMarcel I reposted because I forgot about the Open nature of this platform. I'm glad that you saw it. This is just one big community. Thank you for posting.
@AmpBenzScientist No problem, anything goes, whatever suits you best.
@FroehlichMarcel interesting, but bit too complex for me just at this minute 🙂
An interesting framing of life.