Tackling the paradox of gestalt emergent complex adaptive biological behaviour And the mechanics of Information Theory.

There but for the grace of god, Darwin and Dawkins👇

Maybe because big data and all the other unique identifiers we already have, from our genome onward, makes the addition of a new UID unnecessary and a needless government expense. But the scheme does catalyse commercialisation, public awareness and, in time, public acceptance.

Irony-of-the-day👇Palantir UK does not support the digital ID scheme. Software giant Palantir snubs ‘undemocratic’ digital ID scheme https://t.co/pQCm7oEZ5j

Opinion: Stablecoins could form a major part of the shift in the financial system away from reliance on commercial banks for lending, governor of the Bank of England Andrew Bailey said in an article for the Financial Times https://t.co/kUF8N6KBl9

Sombre reading👇 A one-page key-point reminder for current and aspiring British politicians.

AI agents are now capable of doing real, if bounded, work. But that work can be very valuable. For example, the new Claude Sonnet 4.5 was able to replicate published economics research from data files & the paper. We need to figure out what to do with it:

Here is another incredible GPT-5 Pro example that is well above biomedical PhD level and how it advances science: I was reviewing some of our old data and noticed an email from one of my PhD students sent more than eight years ago, outlining a highly complex immune cell

Menzies Campbell was one of the last of a breed of gentlemen-politicians. He spoke carefully, dressed properly, lived dutifully and carried himself with an integrity that now seems from another age. My notes on my dealings with an incredible man:- https://t.co/MDTSaxDIrs

The jump from "agents are nowhere close to working" to "okay, narrow agents for research and coding work pretty well" to (very recently) "general purpose agents are actually useful for a range of tasks" has been quick enough (less than a year) so that most people have missed it.

https://t.co/pjACgpZckK

I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again. Ignore the haters, London is the 🐐

Starmer gives green light to digital ID plan (Financial Times UK), 20 Sep 2025

A 30 minute story about how the Russian Revolution shaped the philosophy and mathematics of Markov and his chains👇 The Strange Math That Predicts (Almost) Anything https://t.co/zRvld1LnsD via @YouTube

Tree of the day 🌳

Loved this song by Neil Young but you guys have done it absolute justice by doing a cover of it 🎶❤️👏🎤 Can you name this song?

Notes from Chapter 1 of The Vital Question by future guest Nick Lane. In the intro he lists out the motivating questions: Why are bacteria so relatively simple despite being around for 4 billion years? Why is there so much shared structure between all eukaryotic cells despite

Why do Humans Adapt Faster Than AI - https://t.co/Q8GtQiDTT7 @neurosciencenew #AI

Wolfgang Pauli's descent into darkness and recovery, guided by Carl Jung, over their 26 year relationship👇 Their legacy, the philosophical concept of synchronicity, a development of Plato's Forms, remains untouched by mathematics, physics or experimentation.

At the risk of going off at a tangent, ⁦@itodd888⁩, I think this is philosophically (but, critically, not mathematically) relevant. We need the philosophy and the math to touch and spark. But how?

#MIT scientists engineered starfish cells that can shape-shift in response to light! 🌟 Could pave the way for light-activated "micromachines" to heal wounds or deliver drugs precisely where needed. #Bioengineering #SyntheticBiology #CellTherapy