Tag: information
The Role of Learning in the Honey Bee Waggle Dance
Learning is largely a programmed behavior, governed by a type of algorithm, particularly for animals with limited cognitive ability.
Marks: Human Exceptionalism in a World of AI
“Ever wonder whether computers will one day be capable of doing everything that human beings can?”
The DNA Code Takes My Breath Away; Here’s Why
These examples may seem trivial, as if they were just “the way things are,” not proving anything. But this is not so.
Long Story Short: The Origin of Replication and the Information Sequence Problem
As an undergraduate at UC San Diego, I attended a seminar taught by Stanley Miller, the famous chemist who put origin-of-life research on the map.
Intelligent Design in Animal Self-Location and Navigation
A question is whether such mechanisms exist in more ancient brain regions of other animals. A new study has identified a self-location mechanism in zebrafish.