It is with a lot of emotion that I applaud the International Society for Artificial Life for honoring the lifetime achievement of Howard Pattee to the field.

A Biological Theory of Meaning, and What It Says About Whether AI Can Have It

Joanna Rączaszek-Leonardi

Our genetic heritage is not a blueprint or an algorithm, as many biologists have imagined, but something else entirely.

Tony Chemero (philosophy of mind and cognitive science), University Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Cincinnati, has accepted a senior offer from the Department of Philosophy a…

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A vast meshwork of soil-bound fungi governs life aboveground. In Alaska, and at field sites around the world, researchers are racing to understand exactly how, with critical stores of carbon at stake.

Rob, Marianne, and I had so much fun with the Turvey (2019) reading group that we decided to keep going, and we decided to return to the so...

The emergence of a chemical system capable of self-replication and evolution is a critical event in the origin of life. RNA polymerase ribozymes can replicate RNA, but their large size and structural ...

Research into how a father’s choices — such as diet, exercise, stress, nicotine use — may transfer traits to his children has become impossible to ignore.

Abstract. This study explores the evolutionary emergence of semantic closure—the self-referential mechanism through which symbols actively construct and in

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Take a jaunt through a jungle of strange neurons underlying your sense of touch, hundreds of millions of years of animal evolution and the dense neural networks of brains and AIs.

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