[willguest]

Taking it a step further, how would simple algorithms behave when viewed in this way? Rather that just the outcome, we could observe a possibility space...

Michael Levin has talked about interesting dynamics with the bubble sort algorithm, which is only a few lines of code, that have parallels in biological processes, suggesting there is a more nuanced logic to nature that we are not seeing

[bigmadshoe]

This sounds a lot like the programs encoded by neural networks.

[moi2388]

Isn’t that just done in a higher level language, tweaking the algorithm to allow duplicates, and then being surprised there is clustering?

I mean, I don’t see why that is special? Correct me if I’m wrong. I like his research and views on biological electric spaces, but this I did not understand.

[willguest]

the clustering isn't surprising? are you saying that it is an artefact of the higher level representation? special - perhaps not by itself, but when the same strategy is also expressed by single cell organisms, at least intriguing