Stuart Kauffman - Why Open-Ended Evolution Has Never Happened in a Machine (Stewarding the Flame, Episode 5)
About this episode
Stuart Kauffman discusses the nature of life and why computational sophistication alone does not equate to being alive.
Stuart Kauffman has spent over 50 years asking a deceptively simple question: what actually makes something alive? His answer is that greater computational sophistication alone does not make AI alive. In this installment of the Stewarding the Flame series, the pioneering complexity theorist argues that life is fundamentally a matter of physical construction, not computation - living things build themselves out of real matter, while computers only move symbols around. We explore his conc...
More episodes of The Trajectory
- Connor Glass – Merging with Machines to Steward the Flame (Stewarding the Flame, Episode 6)
- Davidad – Merger, Wisdom, and the Fate of Man (Worthy Successor, Episode 33)
- Denis Noble - Life is “Fluid” in Ways Machines Still Aren’t (Stewarding the Flame, Episode 4)
- Paolo Ardoino - Merger or Obsolescence - The Future for Humanity (Stewarding the Flame, Episode 3)
Explore listener stats, chart rankings, contacts and more on the The Trajectory podcast page.