Metabiology
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Premier ouvrage de l’histoire de la philosophie à être totalement consacré au concept d’entéléchie, il ne s’agira pas de proposer un essai historique allant de la mise en place de cette notion chez Aristote jusqu’à la conception... more
The UMaine site at http://cs.umaine.edu/~chaitin/virginia was originally Virginia's home page, and then coexisted with this Academia website, which since 1 July 2015 is Virginia's sole website.
In this article, we will show that uncomputability is a relative property not only of oracle Turing machines, but also of subrecursive classes. We will define the concept of a Turing submachine, and a recursive... more
Metabiology is a mathematical theory mainly based on algorithmic information theory and allows us to study an open-ended evolution of programs, that is, to study how fast the organisms/programs become more complex or more creative without... more
Japanese, Chinese, English, Italian, Italian, Spanish covers of Proving Darwin.
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Podemos chamar o famoso “paradoxo” de Skolem de um pseudoparadoxo metalinguístico da denumerabilidade: de dentro do sistema um conjunto não é enumerável enquanto que de fora do sistema ele pode ser. O mesmo fenômeno aparece em relação à... more
We show that metabiology is not restricted to the study of the evolution of programs or the evolution of computable systems. Inspired by the concept of hyper-computation, that is, by the idea of programs having access to a Turing oracle,... more
This article presents a theoretical investigation of computation beyond the Turing barrier from emergent behavior in distributed systems. In particular, we present an algorithmic network that is a mathematical model of a networked... more
Entendendo a metabiologia como uma teoria matemática para evolução de programas ou de sistemas computáveis, inspirada pela – e voltada para – evolução biológica, esse artigo tem como objetivo discutir - e introduzir - sobre a evolução... more
In Wuppuluri, Doria, The Map and the Territory, Springer, 2018, pp. 513-532. We discuss a mathematical metatheory of biological evolution that employs a version of information theory called algorithmic information theory [1]. As... more
August 2016 Polish release of DVD of the 46-minute documentary "Against method" in which Gregory and Virginia Chaitin discuss creativity at their home on the tropical island of Paquetá. Part of the first season of the "Pioneers" TV series... more
In La Nuova Critica, No. 61-62 (2015), pp. 115-124. Reprinted in Unravelling Complexity: The Life and Work of Gregory Chaitin. We discuss metabiology at a conceptual and methodological level in the light of a permeable pluralistic... more
Unravelling Complexity was published by World Scientific in Singapore in 2020, and is edited by Wuppuluri and Doria. In the Foreword to this volume, Virginia Chaitin makes some observations about her husband Gregory Chaitin's cognitive... more
Um campo, por essência, transdisciplinar é criado quando a teoria algorítmica da informação se propõe a resolver uma questão da biologia. Possivelmente, a questão mais importante: a evolução dos seres vivos. A partir daí, velhos... more
We discuss a mathematical metatheory of biological evolution that employs a version of information theory called algorithmic information theory (Chaitin 1987). As indicated by “meta,” here the tension between map and territory or between... more
This paper attempts to delineate a 20th century movement towards the formation of a truly 'deductive' metabiology. The aim is to reify and crystallize the historical reality of this new meta-biological ‘movement’ by suggesting that what... more
Included in Proving Darwin (Pantheon, 2012) as the climactic central chapter.
More information at https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/25805/proving-darwin-by-gregory-chaitin/
More information at https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/25805/proving-darwin-by-gregory-chaitin/
A metabiologia é uma teoria matemática baseada, principalmente, na teoria da informação algorítmica, nos permitindo estudar a evolução open-ended de programas, isto é, estudar quão rápido os organismos/programas se tornam mais complexos... more
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Sept 2016 talk by Virginia Chaitin at the University of Campinas in Brasil. One in a series of UNICAMP's 50th anniversary events.
This paper attempts to delineate a 20th century movement towards the formation of a truly 'deductive' metabiology. The aim is to reify and crystallize the historical reality of this new meta-biological ‘movement’ by suggesting... more