There’s Plenty of Room Right Here: Biological Systems as Evolved, Overloaded, Multi-Scale Machines

The applicability of computational models to the biological world is an active topic of debate. We argue that a useful path forward results from abandoning hard boundaries between categories and adopting an observer-dependent, pragmatic view. Such a view dissolves the contingent dichotomies driven b...

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Published in:	Biomimetics
Main Authors:	Joshua Bongard, Michael Levin
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	MDPI AG 2023-03-01
Subjects:	biology computer science robot artificial life artificial intelligence machine learning
Online Access:	https://www.mdpi.com/2313-7673/8/1/110