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Chris Adami
Belgian
Scientist
Born:
Aug 30
,
1962
Come
Computer
Decision
Life
World
You
Related authors:
Carl Sagan
Charles Darwin
Galileo Galilei
George Washington Carver
Hippocrates
Margaret Mead
Marie Curie
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Can life be defined? Well, how would you go about it? Well, of course, you'd go to Encyclopedia Britannica and open at L. No, of course you don't do that; you put it somewhere in Google. And then you might get something.
Chris Adami
Life
You
Somewhere
Google
Defined
Would
About
Something
Open
Put
Well
Course
How
Go
Encyclopedia
Get
Might
Then
We can make life in the computer. Granted, it's limited, but we have learned what it takes in order to actually construct it.
Chris Adami
Life
Construct
Computer
Takes
Make
Learned
Limited
Order
Granted
Actually
We found evolution will punish you if you're selfish and mean. For a short time and against a specific set of opponents, some selfish organisms may come out ahead. But selfishness isn't evolutionarily sustainable.
Chris Adami
Time
You
Selfish
Will
Punish
Evolution
Out
Some
Come
Opponents
Selfishness
May
Short
Sustainable
Short Time
Against
Mean
Organisms
Found
Specific
Set
In the animal world, there are all kinds of behaviors that are binary: for example, to flee or to fight. In any evolutionary environment, knowing your opponent's decision would not be advantageous for long because your opponent would evolve the same recognition mechanism to also know you.
Chris Adami
You
Fight
Animal
World
Decision
Binary
Example
Long
Recognition
Evolutionary
Evolve
Would
Kinds
Animal World
Environment
For Example
Know
Also
Knowing
Because
Opponent
Same
Behaviors
Any
Flee
Your
Mechanism
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