Tag: hardware
Weighing Whether Matter Itself Is Conscious
To say that consciousness is real is to say that the immaterial world is, in principle, real.
Paper Digest: Standard Engineering Principles as a Predictive Framework for Biology
Human designing and building have resulted in lists of standard engineering principles which must be followed to produce efficient, robust systems.
Paper Digest: A Robot Is Built Using Cockroach Biomimicry
The understanding of what it takes to build complex systems sheds light on the causal hurdles that would be necessary for evolutionary processes to overcome.
Diatoms and the Mystery of Morphogenesis
From code to art: how does a linear set of instructions result in a beautifully crafted pattern? Diatoms do it, and scientists are struggling to figure out how.
Navigation Ability Crosses Phylum Lines — And That’s a Problem for Evolution
Yes, that is kind of adorable. It took only a few days for the fish to learn to drive.