Type Redundancy & Risk in Biology

This post is to provide access to a PDF which summarises a presentation I recently gave to the the Rationality Vienna group.

I really enjoyed the discussion afterwards, and the opportunity to present the latest version of my ideas and work.

In the presentation is a, hopefully, intuitive summary of the ideas that biological systems manage risk differently, and I also delve more into the relationship between this and computer theory. Specifically, I look at much more detail into the idea of 'type' in programming languages, and how redundancy across 'types' in biology can be used to describe mathematically how biological systems pivot from one 'model' to another to access exogenous information and manage risk.

This also relates to the ubiquity of cross-talk in biological systems, but I talk more about that in another presentation, available here:

I believe that biological systems utilise type redundancy to be able to pivot and integrate new information in an efficient way. This makes them more meta-stable than human designed machines and mechanisms, but also makes them appear less 'rationally organised'

If you're interested to learn more, here's the PDF

On the Origin of Risk_ Meta-modular Biology PDF flattened timestamped.pdf

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