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The chemical changes encoded by these systems are modifying the information encoded in these chemical compounds, and therefore they represent a fundamental form of computation. Life is a consequence of the ability of matter to compute.
Why Information Grows
Cesar Hidalgo
What the Aidersen argued was for them unacceptable: namely that man had acquired a new “instrument of knowledge” that on the one hand gives us findings so palpable and data so positive that would satisfy even the most conservative early believers in sensory data, and on the other hand proves that its texture is “beyond cognition” and “beyond reason” (ratio).
Chronicles From the Future
Paul Amadeus Dienach and Achilleas Sirigos
One can think of an embedding as a way to try to represent the “essence” of something by an array of numbers—with the property that “nearby things” are represented by nearby numbers.
What Is ChatGPT Doing ... And Why Does It Work?
Stephen Wolfram
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