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Exciting stuff on complexity, theoretical biology, artificial intelligence, linguistics, neuroscience and their intersections. #complexitycat https://amahury.github.io/

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Complexity Cat 🐱 @amahury.bsky.social · 26d

As a promising avenue for unifying physics and biology, assembly theory (AT) has been subject of controversy, being both praised and refuted at the same time.

What is its current status? Has it really quantified selection and evolution?/1

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Demystifying Assembly Theory

“It doesn’t make any difference how beautiful your guess is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are who made the guess, or what his name is … If it disagrees with experiment, it’s wrong. That’s all there...

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COMPLEX NETWORKS 2025 @cna25.bsky.social · 5m

Are you going to miss our great lineup? Register now for #ComplexNetworks2025 and be part of this premier conference in #ComplexSystems and #NetworkScience!🚀

After October 17th, our fees will increase.📈💸

You're just a click away from registering👇
www.billetweb.fr/complex-netw...

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Complexity Cat 🐱 @amahury.bsky.social · 6h

Fully aligned with our work on semantic closure as the main promoter of open-ended evolution at the origin of life. 👇

Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.bsky.social · 6h

Adding loops into a genome is a complicated and costly business for a cell. New findings suggest that it may be the reason that ancient life became complex. @philipcball.bsky.social reports:
www.quantamagazine.org/loops-of-dna...

Loops of DNA Equipped Ancient Life To Become Complex | Quanta Magazine

New work shows that physical folding of the genome to control genes located far away may have been an early evolutionary development.

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 6h

I adored writing this piece. It brings together several of the things preoccupying me right now, like chromatin organization and gene regulation. There's so much more to be said on that. Also, these marine critters look gorgeous.
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Loops of DNA Equipped Ancient Life To Become Complex | Quanta Magazine

New work shows that physical folding of the genome to control genes located far away may have been an early evolutionary development.

www.quantamagazine.org

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Adrian Currie @adrian-currie.bsky.social · 7h

If you’re interested in practicing the philosophy of science in practice why not come along to an online workshop “the philosophy of science in practice - in practice”? #philsci

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CS3 - Complex Systems Society Spain @cs3conference.bsky.social · 2d

Empezamos a anunciar nuestra lista de invitados con 🥁...

Susanna Manrubia, @mncn-csic.bsky.social

Encantados de tenerla en la 4º reunión de la Sociedad Española de Sistemas Complejos!

🗓️ 21-23 enero 2026 |📍Sevilla
✏️Contribuciones abiertas hasta el 30 Oct 2025
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CS3 - Complex Systems Society Spain @cs3conference.bsky.social · 7h

Nos hace mucha ilusión anunciar a

David Soriano Paños, Universitat Rovira i Virgili
@sorianopanos.bsky.social

como conferenciante invitado. Te esperamos el 21-23 enero 2026 en Sevilla para compartir avances en sistemas complejos.

🚨 Envía tu abstract hasta el 30 Oct 2025
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Hiroki Sayama @hirokisayama.bsky.social · 18h

#ALIFE2025 Day 3 keynote Chris Kempes discusses the possibility of universal laws of life

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Complexity Cat 🐱 @amahury.bsky.social · 18h

Are there universal laws of life? Our keynote speaker today at #ALIFE2025 is Chris Kempes, who dedicated his talk to the question above. He mainly focused on the constraints that life needs to emerge, showing that there are general scaling laws between multiple biological traits.

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Complexity Cat 🐱 @amahury.bsky.social · 19h

Jeongho Park finishes the Cognition session by showing us how to develop visual homing based on retinal flow vector using an insect (bio-)inspired approach.

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Hiroki Sayama @hirokisayama.bsky.social · 19h

Alexandre Guillet explores diverse dynamics of the continuous Game of Life family (with a super nice interactive live demo!)
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Complexity Cat 🐱 @amahury.bsky.social · 19h

Keep going with the Cognition session, Earnest Kota Carr presents his cyber-mimetic framework to model social dynamics, showing that cybernetic mimesis truly captures economic booms and busts.

#ALIFE2025

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Hiroki Sayama @hirokisayama.bsky.social · 20h

Pietro Miotti proposes Differentiable Logic Cellular Automata
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Complexity Cat 🐱 @amahury.bsky.social · 20h

Now @imytk.bsky.social introduces us to his computational framework of bio-inspired adaptive systems using social allostatic principles. He followed up his model showing empirical testing of it.

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Hiroki Sayama @hirokisayama.bsky.social · 20h

#ALIFE2025 Cellular Automata session
Marko Cvjetko explores behavior space of Flow Lenia

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Angel Goñi-Moreno @angelgm.bsky.social · 20h

1st evolution session of the day at #ALIFE2025. Our story on evolvability by Pablo Japón. In evolution, it is not only the visible that matters!

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Complexity Cat 🐱 @amahury.bsky.social · 20h

Starting the Cognition session, Fernando Rodríguez gives us an overview on how the conception of cognition as computation has evolved historically.

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Artemy Kolchinsky @artemyte.bsky.social · 1d

After a long time in the making, my paper on nonequilibrium thermodynamics of Darwinian evolution has been published in Philosophical Transactions B. Updated version: arxiv.org/abs/2112.02809

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Angel Goñi-Moreno @angelgm.bsky.social · 1d

What a 2nd day! A lot of complexity metrics, algorithmic probability and evolution - and a bit more on noise! My two cents: apart from theory (pure maths), the physical substrate (silicon vs living) used to run algorithms would re-define a few things within the above. #ALIFE2025

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Angel Goñi-Moreno @angelgm.bsky.social · 1d

My first day at #ALIFE2025 was about 1) noise and 2) information. Noise as a perturbation that pushes a system outside viability, or as a resource for computation. Two views that are not the same but complementary. Information leads to (is?) correlation and knowledge (memory?). Most inspiring talks!

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George Musser @georgemusser.com · 1d

Here's a depressing solution to the Fermi Paradox: In a hostile Galaxy, we won't ever see aliens because, if we did, we'd be dead already, mused Georgii Karelin of @oistedu.bsky.social at #ALIFE2025. ⚙️🧫

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Hiroki Sayama @hirokisayama.bsky.social · 1d

Felix Reimers proposes EngramNCA, an NCA with public and private channels
#DistributedCiphers
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Complexity Cat 🐱 @amahury.bsky.social · 1d

Finishing the ALife & Society session, Jeremy Pitt introduced a model to characterize mortality, a universal property of living systems which sometimes doesn't receive enough attention as it should be.

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Hiroki Sayama @hirokisayama.bsky.social · 1d

Sidney Pontes-Filho uses critical neural CA for reservoir computing
#DistributedCiphers
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Complexity Cat 🐱 @amahury.bsky.social · 1d

Now Stavros Anagnou explores a solution for the institution bootstrapping problem, or why despite their benefits institutions need a critical mass of participants to form. His results show that for a diverse community there are less costs for creating institutions.

#ALIFE2025

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Complexity Cat 🐱 @amahury.bsky.social · 1d

Starting the ALife & Society session, Georgii Karelin discusses some implications of the Fermi paradox for the field of #Alife. Based on the great filter theory, he derived a Drake equation for the realization of Artificial Life in both in-vitro and in-silico scenarios.

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