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Google Researcher Shows Life "Emerges From Code" - Blaise Agüera y Arcas
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Blaise Agüera y Arcas explores some mind-bending ideas about what intelligence and life really are—and why they might be more similar than we think (filmed at ALIFE conference, 2025 - https://2025.alife.org/). Life and intelligence are both fundamentally computational (he says). From the very beginning, living things have been running programs. Your DNA? It's literally a computer program, and the ribosomes in your cells are tiny universal computers building you according to those instructions. **SPONSOR MESSAGES** — Prolific - Quality data. From real people. For faster breakthroughs. https://www.prolific.com/?utm_source=mlst — cyber•Fund https://cyber.fund/?utm_source=mlst is a founder-led…