The Future of Consciousness: A Discussion with Eva Jablonka
New Books in Neuroscience
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Is There an Unlimited Heredity System?
On that definition of unlimited heredity, that would mean that of serhuman would be a living thing. Buti it is a parasite. It is an obligatory parasite. So will you call it alive? Won't you call it Alive? Well, i will call it alive once it is within the context of ofer, within the right kind of context - which in case would be a context of another living cell. In the same way you can have an unlimited heredITY system, which is, for example, a kind of genetic algorithm. A genetic algorithm can have many, many, many hereditary manifestations. You build it like this. And if you reverse ingineer from this
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