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Continue Reading βFor many decades, the proponents of `artificial intelligence’ have maintained that computers will soon be able to do everything that a human can do. In ...
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Continue Reading βWhat is Life? Decades of research have resulted in the full mapping of the human genome – three billion pairs of code whose functions are ...
Continue Reading βIn this thought-provoking book, Denis Noble formulates the theory of biological relativity, emphasising that living organisms operate at multiple levels of complexity and must therefore ...
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