Mechano Evolution Talk

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Brad La ton Drexel UniversiBrad La ton,Drexel Universi

"'You, your joys and your sorrows, your

memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact nomore than the behavior of a vast assembly ofnerve cells and their associated molecules."

-Francis Crick


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"If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to bedestroyed, and only one sentence passed on to the nextgenerations of creatures, what statement would contain themost information in the fewest words? I believe it is theatomic

hypothesis (or the atomicfact or whatever you wish to call it)thatall things are made of atoms — little particles thatmove around in perpetual motion, attracting each otherwhen they are a little distance apart, but repelling uponbeing squeezed into one another. In that one sentence, you

will see, there is anenormous amount of information about theworld, if just a little imagination and thinking are applied"

-Richard P. Feynman


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"For the real amazement, if you wish to be amazed, is this process. You start out as a single cell derived from thecoupling of a sperm and egg; this divides in two, then four,then eight and so on, and at a certain stage there emerges asingle cell which has as all its progeny the human brain. The

mere existence of such a cell should be one of the greatastonishments of the earth. People ought to be walking aroundall day, all through their waking hours calling to each other inendless wonderment, talking of nothing except that cell."

-Lewis Thomas


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If you can't explain it to a high school student you probablydon't understand it."

-Richard P. Feynman

"If I could explain it to you, it wouldn't have been worthy of aNobel Prize."

-Richard P. Feynman


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“The best thing you can do for the environment is kill yourself”

-Fred Loucks


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"I say that everything bar nothing, being a possibility, we are placing our bets right now on the wrong tables, exploringregions of reality where our senses are not reliably sensitive,when there are obvious things needing our attention right now,where our senses are reliable. Let's look our for long-term

comets and straying asteroids. Let's go to Mars. Let's dobiochemistry. Let's think about what kinds of senses peoplehave and how they can use them to their advantage. Let's notspend our time and resources thinking about things that are so

little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up andmake us feel like gods. We are mammals, and we have notexhausted the annoying little problems of being mammals. "

-Kary Mullis


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"When you can measure what you are speaking about, andexpress it in numbers, you know something about it; but when

you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it innumbers, your knowledge is a meagre and unsatisfactory kind;it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely,in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of science."

-Lord Kelvin


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"Light, strong, cheap...

-Keith Bontrager

-Pick two."


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MechanoEvolution

Bradley Layton Assistant Professor

Mechanical Engineering and MechanicsDrexel University

Philadelphia, PA USA

February April 27, 2007


10/46Brad La ton Drexel UniversiBrad La ton,Drexel Universi

• BRADLEY LAYTON HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

• MECHANOEVOLUTION: WHAT IT IS

• MECHANOEVOLUTIONISTS

• FEEDING OURSELVES w/ ENERGY AND INFORMATION• THREE WAYS OUT

OUTLINE



• BRADLEY LAYTON HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE- Indiana

- MIT- Michigan- Drexe Mechan!E"!#$i!n Ca%% &''() &''*

OUTLINE



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• MECHANOEVOLUTION: WHAT IT IS• MECHANOEVOLUTIONISTS


OUTLINE




EVOLUTION:Successful passage ofinformation from thepast to the future SPECIES:A discrete unit capable of sharing informationwith the sole purpose of persisting into the future (not

necessarily in the same form, but in an uninterruptedlineage) TECHNOLOGY REPLICATION:Machine selection isdriven by human utility

MACHINES AS PROSTHETICS:Machines that improvethelikelihood of human DNA persistence survive as well MATERIAL CONTINUITY:Biology passes actual physicalmaterials (DNA) in an unbroken lineage. Machines do notdo this yet without human intervention.

MECHANOEVOLUTION WHAT IT IS



• EVOLUTION:

- Successful passage of information from the past to thefuture

- Favors simplicity (virus), but also occasionally rewardscomplexity (human)

- Seems to favor efficiency (high reproduction rate / energythroughput ratio) but also rewards inefficiency (high casualtycost to protect species members)

- Seems to encourage modeling (navigation systems, sensorysystems, decision systems, alternative genetic pathways,

Newtonian mechanics) but also rewards ignorance- Becomes increasingly energetically expensive to maintainlow entropy locally, the higher on the information food chain*one becomes, making many members vulnerable(humans only)

OUTLINE

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• Richard Feynman (1918-1988):Plenty of Room at the Bottom• Arthur C. Clark (1917-),Futurist, predicts space elevator

• Richard Dawkins (1941-):Evolutionary Biologist

• Jared Diamond (1937-):Anthropologist

• Nic!a% Lé!nard Sadi Carnot (1796-1832):Thermodynamacist• Claude Shannon (1916-2001):Information Theory

• Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961):Life Eats Chemical Information

• John Avery:Information Theory and Biology

• Hubert Yockey: Information Theory and Evolution

• Antonella Vannini:Syntropy, Info from Future

• Bradley Edwards:Space Elevator

• Rusty Schweickart:Gravity Tractor

• Ra2 +#r7ei? The Sing#ari$2) %iic!n i55!r$ai$2

OUTLINE



MECHANOEVOLUTIONISTS? Richard e2n5an

There’s plenty of roo! at the botto!, *+97

“The only two engineers whocontributed anything to

science were )arnot and

hannon”

“;uiet, we are obser%ingso!ething holy ”when he firstsaw the i!ages fro! an early

ato!ic force !icroscope

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Feynman-bongos.jpg



MECHANOEVOLUTIONISTS? Ar$h#r C; Car8e

A space ele%ator# *+0s200*# *+:

20*0# *+/2

"%er thirty ci5fi no%els

between *+9* and present

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MECHANOEVOLUTIONISTS? Richard Da78in%

The Ancestor ’s Tale 200:1$ichard -awkins

Also by -awkins#The elfish


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MECHANOEVOLUTIONISTS? ared Dia5!nd

The Third )hi!pan'ee, *++2 =ared -ia!ond

Also by -ia!ond#


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MECHANOEVOLUTIONISTS? Carn!$

http#>>andro!eda.rutgers.edu>?huskey>i!ages>[email protected]

Ω= ln Bk S

0≥

dt

dS k B: Boltzmann's constant S: entropy

W: number of microstates

Ma8i!u! !echanical work acco!plishable is a function

of the gradient or discrepancy between two ther!al states

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Sadi_Carnot.jpeg


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MECHANOEVOLUTIONISTS? Ca#de Shann!n

+=

N

S BC 1Log2

B: bandwidth

C: channel’s information carrying capacity

N: noise

S: signal

Infor!ation !ay only be passed fro!

one entity to another if a sufficient

energy gradient e8ists.

what is the total nu!ber of states a%ailable to a syste!

if the energy gradients a%ailable to trans!itinfor!ation are depleted, how do we persist

into the future My argu!ent is that aw we

feed our !achines energy, we are

increasing entropy and noise in hannon’seBuation

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MECHANOEVOLUTIONISTS? Er7in Schr ödinger

What is Life? is a non5fiction book on

science for the lay reader written by

physicist &rwin chr ödinger

IC3 092*:270// 1. Francis )rick cited

hat is 4ife as the best theoretical

description, before the actual disco%ery of

-3A, of how genetic storage would work.In the book, chr ödinger introduced theidea of an Daperiodic crystalD that

contained genetic infor!ation in its

configuration of co%alent che!ical bonds.

This idea both sti!ulated enthusias! for

disco%ering the genetic !olecule andcould be seen in retrospect1 as ha%ing

been a well5reasoned theoretical

prediction of what biologists should ha%e

been looking for during their search for

the genetic !aterial.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Schr%C3%B6dingerhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Schr%C3%B6dingerhttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Booksources&isbn=0521427088http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Crickhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Erwin_Schr%C3%B6dinger.jpghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Crickhttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Booksources&isbn=0521427088http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Schr%C3%B6dingerhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Schr%C3%B6dingerhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Schr%C3%B6dinger


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MECHANOEVOLUTIONISTS? !hn A"er2

Infor!ation Theory

and Ciology, 200

A"er2

DThe pheno!enon of life,including its origin and

e%olution, against the

background of

ther!odyna!ics, has its parado8 of resolution in

the infor!ation content of

the Gibbs free energy

that enters the biosphere

fro! outside sources.D


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MECHANOEVOLUTIONISTS? H#.er$ Y!c8e2

H#.er$ Y!c8e2

-3A contains

infor!ation that is

responsible for!aintaining life in its

entropically unlikely

state

Infor!ation Theory,

&%olution and the

"rigin of 4Ife


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MECHANOEVOLUTIONISTS? An$!nea Vannini

An$!nea Vannini

“…a 6h2%ica and che5ica 6hen!5ena) 7hich arede$er5ined .2 ca#%e% 6aced in $he 6a%$) are g!"erned .2

$he 6rinci6e !3 en$r!62) 7hie a $h!%e 6hen!5ena 7hichare a$$rac$ed $!7ard% ca#%e% 7hich are 6aced in $he

3#$#re /a$$rac$!r%1) are g!"erned .2 a 6rinci6e

7hich i% %255e$rica $! en$r!62 and 7hich an$a66ièna5ed %2n$r!62;”


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MECHANOEVOLUTIONISTS?

hy keep a 3obel laureate around e.g. M$I in%entor, etc … 1ho cares about Buarks and Buasars

hat is the %alue of hu!an intelligence, if not a self5fulfilling

prophecy of actual i!!ortality

Machines, infor!ation, and the infor!ation stored on !achineshas allowed us to li%e longer than we already !ight ha%e. ill

this trend continue

)ould it be that what a laureate knows will hold the key to hu!an i!!ortality in one of

the“Three ays "ut”yntropic infor!ation fro! the future, aside, could the ability to!odel and thus predict the future be a weak for! of what Eannini proposes


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• FEEDING OURSELVES w/ ENERGY ANDINFORMATION• THREE WAYS OUT

OUTLINE


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The Sec!nd La7 !3 Ther5!d2na5ic%

R#d!3 Ca#%i#%?

“The entropy of an isolated syste! not in eBuilibriu!will tend to increase o%er ti!e, approaching a !a8i!u!%alue at eBuilibriu!.”

0≥dt

dS

2


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The Big Pic$#re !3 Mechan!E"!#$i!n

ti!e

0

2

2

=dt

S d

02

2


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OUTLINE


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Three Wa2% !#$ !3 i"ing a$ $he $!6 !3 $he

• Maintenance of Status Quo

NIH? In3! and $echn! 7i 8i cancer /%a3e%$ .e$1 BRADLEY EDWARDS: Space Elevator/!ng %h!$1 RUSTY SCHWEICKART: Gravity Tractor/!ng %h!$14 Tran%cendence !3 Bi!!g2

RAY +UR0WEIL? Siic!n i55!r$ai$2 /di33ic#$ $! 6redic$1• Spirituality? Prayer will take you to immortality… You will“live” in heaven forever. Jerry Falwell/!nge%$ %h!$1

Pope Benedict(longest shot?) Dahli Lamma(long, but more practical?)


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MECHANOEVOLUTIONISTS? Brade2 Ed7ard%


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MECHANOEVOLUTIONISTS? R#%$2 Sch7eic8ar$

“My current pri!ary interest is the subect of

3ear &arth Asteroids, or 3&As. They ’re actually part of a !ore general group, the 3&"s or 3ear

&arth "bects, which also includes co!ets.”

“My initial interest in 3&"’s was the role thatthey played, o%er geologic ti!e, in defining the

&arth’s en%iron!ent and in shaping thee%olution and de%elop!ent of life. The history of

asteroidal and co!etary i!pacts on the &arth,

and indeed all solar syste! bodies, is !ost

e%ident when looking at the pock!arked

surface of the !oon. (owe%er, it is generally

understood that the cratering e%ident there is no

different fro! what it would be on other inner

solar syste! bodies, but for the !itigating

effects of at!ospheres, weather and erosion.”


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MECHANOEVOLUTIONISTS? Ra2 +#r7ei

(u!an

transcendence of

biology

!any technologists speak of

what a great ti!e it is to beali%e. I disagree. e are on a

bubble between certain death

and possible i!!ortality. Cut

what will be the Buality of this

i!!ortality )orporeal

&8tracorporeal -igital 5C&4


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In $he 5ean$i5e… Wha$ d! 7e d! a% engineer%

syntropic engineering

green rockets

brain5!achine interface

personal geno!e seBuencing

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