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Gregory Chaitin: Complexity, Metabiology, Gödel, Cold Fusion, and What is Randomness?

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

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Understanding Life and Biology through the Concept of Software

Physicists trying to understand life using concepts from physics is not effective. Instead, a higher level of abstraction is needed. One notable paper on the mathematics of biology is von Neumann's work on self-reproducing computers in a cellular automata world. This paper suggests that the fundamental concept of biology is software, which also applies to computer technology.

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