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Complex systems emerge from simple rules

Can you predict your next move? Can you make sense of what is happening around you? And within you?

Well, the game of life is Turing Complete, which means that has the same computational power as the computer/smartphone where you are reading this article right now. Biology emerges from the interactions of complex molecules, mainly involving biomolecules such as proteins, nucleic acids, lipids and carbohydrates. Note that emergent properties are unpredictable; the engineers who worked on GPT-3 could not predict how good it would be at solving problems for which it had not been trained.

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