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{
"@context": [
"https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams",
"https://pleroma.microblog.se/schemas/litepub-0.1.jsonld",
{
"@language": "und"
}
],
"actor": "https://pleroma.microblog.se/users/jan",
"attachment": [],
"attributedTo": "https://pleroma.microblog.se/users/jan",
"cc": [
"https://pleroma.microblog.se/users/jan/followers"
],
"content": "…what if life itself is, even in principle, nonsimulable? There are, of course, many things that mechanization by rote does better than life, in terms of speed, repeatability, precision, and so forth. On the other hand, a living system…may be characterized by its ability to handle ambiguities and take chances, indeed, its ability to err. These are precisely the processes that cannot, by definition…, be modelled algorithmically.<br>—Aloisius H. Louie, More Than Life Itself: A Synthetic Continuation in Relational Biology<br><a class=\"hashtag\" data-tag=\"life\" href=\"https://pleroma.microblog.se/tag/life\" rel=\"tag ugc\">#life</a> <a class=\"hashtag\" data-tag=\"computability\" href=\"https://pleroma.microblog.se/tag/computability\" rel=\"tag ugc\">#computability</a> <a class=\"hashtag\" data-tag=\"computation\" href=\"https://pleroma.microblog.se/tag/computation\" rel=\"tag ugc\">#computation</a> <a class=\"hashtag\" data-tag=\"algorithms\" href=\"https://pleroma.microblog.se/tag/algorithms\" rel=\"tag ugc\">#algorithms</a>",
"context": "https://pleroma.microblog.se/contexts/5e8bcb3a-45c4-41bb-a104-c85a49359f62",
"conversation": "https://pleroma.microblog.se/contexts/5e8bcb3a-45c4-41bb-a104-c85a49359f62",
"id": "https://pleroma.microblog.se/objects/35577c8a-70bd-4b81-b328-05be4c3b5045",
"published": "2025-05-03T04:55:26.441373Z",
"sensitive": null,
"source": {
"content": "…what if life itself is, even in principle, nonsimulable? There are, of course, many things that mechanization by rote does better than life, in terms of speed, repeatability, precision, and so forth. On the other hand, a living system…may be characterized by its ability to handle ambiguities and take chances, indeed, its ability to err. These are precisely the processes that cannot, by definition…, be modelled algorithmically.\r\n—Aloisius H. Louie, More Than Life Itself: A Synthetic Continuation in Relational Biology\r\n#life #computability #computation #algorithms",
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},
"summary": "",
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"href": "https://pleroma.microblog.se/tags/algorithms",
"name": "#algorithms",
"type": "Hashtag"
},
{
"href": "https://pleroma.microblog.se/tags/computability",
"name": "#computability",
"type": "Hashtag"
},
{
"href": "https://pleroma.microblog.se/tags/computation",
"name": "#computation",
"type": "Hashtag"
},
{
"href": "https://pleroma.microblog.se/tags/life",
"name": "#life",
"type": "Hashtag"
}
],
"to": [
"https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public"
],
"type": "Note"
}