Let’s talk about life.
DNA is the master blueprint that life uses to build and organize matter into entities that are capable of the local and temporal defeat of entropy. Yet, at the end of the day, DNA is still only an instruction set. Life has agency, purpose, and intention. Life is a force we still do not understand, nor may we ever understand from the perspective of the physical world. Let’s talk about it.
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Concrete worked example: using a Cellular-Automata ↔ Neural-Network hybrid to “remember” and restore heavily-damaged MNIST digits
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A plain-English tour of cellular automata, neural networks, and the “attractor-basin” idea from Frank Schmidt’s article “Memory as an Attractor Basin—Why Brains and Artificial Networks Remember by Falling, Not Filing.
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Synergizing Cellular Automata and Neural Networks: Memory as a Dynamical Descent
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How Brains, Computers, and Simple Little Grids Can Remember Things
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Memory Falling Like a Gravity-Sick Star (After Ginsberg & Attractor Basins)
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Memory as an Attractor Basin: An Exploration of Why Brains and Artificial Networks Remember by Falling, Not by Filing