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Algorithmic bottlenecks in evolution: Genetic code, symbolic language, and the Great Filter hypothesis
Mikhail Prokopenko, Nihat Ay, Angelica Breviario +12
The Great Filter hypothesis proposes that the emergence of technological societies capable of interstellar travel depends on a small number of exceptionally hard and highly improba…
Biological arrow of time: Emergence of tangled information hierarchies and self-modelling dynamics
Mikhail Prokopenko, Paul C. W. Davies, Michael Harré +6
We study open-ended evolution by focusing on computational and information-processing dynamics underlying major evolutionary transitions. In doing so, we consider biological organi…
Multiverse Predictions for Habitability: Origin of Life Scenarios
McCullen Sandora, Vladimir Airapetian, Luke Barnes +2
If the origin of life is rare and sensitive to the local conditions at the site of its emergence, then, using the principle of mediocrity within a multiverse framework, we may expe…