Double helix
65 years ago today Watson and Crick discovered the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). Alec StokesBiologyDNAFrancis Crickgeneticsjames watsonRosalind Franklinscience
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Form and Function in Human Song
Here’s a recent open access paper in Current Biology along with a journalistic write-up in The Harvard Gazette. The present research provides evidence for the existence of recurrent, perceptible features of three domains of vocal music across 86 human societies and for the striking consistency of form-function percepts across listeners from around the globe—listeners who presumably…
An Evaluation of the Model of Stigmergy in a RoboCup Rescue Multiagent System
ADVANCES IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE A lot of scientists study the behavior of insect’s colony like ants, wasps and bees. Through these researches, it is possible to establish patterns used by a group of insects and apply these patterns in other domains. In this paper it will be showed the use of stigmergy in a rescue…
A Brief History of Stigmergy
Someone has posted Guy Theraulaz’ and Eric Bonabeau’s classic paper from Artificial Life. Artificial intelligenceArtificial LifeBiologyCollective intelligencecollective intentionalitycomplexityEusocialityExternalismInsectPierre-Paul GrasséSpontaneous orderstigmergicStigmergy
The Glass is Half Full: Optimism and the Brain
Here’s an article from Nature Neuroscience that is getting a lot of attention. Here is an interview with lead author Tali Sharot who has cornered the market on “optimism” research. BiologyFrontal lobeFunctional magnetic resonance imagingNature NeuroscienceNeurobiologyOptimismUniversity College London
Autopoiesis and Cognition
Maturana and Varela’s classic Autopoiesis and Cognition is freely available here (H/T to Paul Loader). What makes a living system a living system? What kind of biological phenomenon is the phenomenon of cognition? These two questions have been frequently considered, but, in this volume, the authors consider them as concrete biological questions. Their analysis is bold and…
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