Comment by pixl97
7 hours ago
>They all use DNA.
I really really recommend looking up Michael Levins bio work on intelligence at the cellular and organ level.
His most recent work is starting to touch on some pretty far out concepts. And I should note, that he does not state they are true or not, but they are attempting to make empirical methods on testing them.
One of the concepts they are looking at is "math as an actual thing" and that some simple algorithms have new deeper behaviors that we're just finding now. The hypothesis is that over the eons life has probed mathematics at scales humanity cannot even begin to imagine and is exploiting this deep algorithmic efficiency in accomplishing any number of tasks. These algorithms could help explain the missing links.
I'd suggest starting with some of his older work to see they are a credentialed research scientist and not making up 'woo' whole cloth.
I’m curious how you found Michael’s work? Like what led you to familiarize yourself with his research?
He seems to be essentially the only biologist that hackernews knows and he always (always!) comes up in biology discussion. I’m wondering how this particular situation arose.
It's been long enough that I'm not really sure. It's every time I see some of his work the way he looks at problems always intrigued me.
Dogma in science tends to blind people, and when a field starts slowing down and running into things we cannot address then we have to start looking at what we should be questioning.
How do you keep up to date with his work?
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