#computing #biology # [[Epistemic status]] #shower-thought #to-digest # Changelog ```dataview TABLE WITHOUT ID file.mtime AS "Last Modified" FROM [[#]] SORT file.mtime DESC LIMIT 3 ``` # Related > [!NOTE]- Related # TODO > [!TODO] TODO # Organic vs artificial ![[Drawing 2021-07-09 11.01.57.svg]] In **nature** it seems everything is data-driven, while in **computers** we only begin to go in that direction, and that's why [[Computing/Distributed Computing|distributed computed]] was hard at first, our [[Physic/System/System|system]]s where not data-driven. Software and hardware ([[Mind]] and [[Brain]]) are much more tightly connected in organic than in artificial. In [[Computing|computer]]s the software can hardly modify the hardware, the software starts to modify itself, thanks to learning ([[Computing/Intelligence/Machine Learning/Machine Learning|ML]]). But in nature, the [[Brain]] software, that is the [[Mind]] is able to edit its own hardware, the [[Genome|genome]]. >[[Genome|Gene]]s are the primary policy-makers; **brains** are the executives. But as **brains** became more highly developed, they took over more and more of the actual policy decisions, using tricks like [[Philosophy/Rationality/Learning|learning]] and simulation in doing so. The logical conclusion to this trend, not yet reached in any species, would be for the [[Genome|gene]]s to give the survival machine a single overall policy instruction: do whatever you think best to keep us alive. ~ [[Richard Dawkins]]