DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2015.12.013
论文题名: Information in the Biosphere: Biological and Digital Worlds
作者: Gillings M.R. ; Hilbert M. ; Kemp D.J.
刊名: Trends in Ecology and Evolution
ISSN: 1695347
出版年: 2016
卷: 31, 期: 3 起始页码: 180
结束页码: 189
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Artificial intelligence
; Big data
; Digital
; Evolutionary transition
; Information
; Moore's law
; Replicator
; Singularity
; Synthetic biology
Scopus关键词: evolution
; genetic selection
; human
; information dissemination
; online system
; Biological Evolution
; Humans
; Information Dissemination
; Online Systems
; Selection, Genetic
英文摘要: Evolution has transformed life through key innovations in information storage and replication, including RNA, DNA, multicellularity, and culture and language. We argue that the carbon-based biosphere has generated a cognitive system (humans) capable of creating technology that will result in a comparable evolutionary transition. Digital information has reached a similar magnitude to information in the biosphere. It increases exponentially, exhibits high-fidelity replication, evolves through differential fitness, is expressed through artificial intelligence (AI), and has facility for virtually limitless recombination. Like previous evolutionary transitions, the potential symbiosis between biological and digital information will reach a critical point where these codes could compete via natural selection. Alternatively, this fusion could create a higher-level superorganism employing a low-conflict division of labor in performing informational tasks. Digital information is accumulating at an exponential rate and could exceed the quantity of DNA-based information. There are biological and social implications arising from our growing fusion with the digital world.The parallels between evolution in the biological and digital worlds need to be explored. © 2015 Elsevier Ltd. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/67079
Appears in Collections: 全球变化的国际研究计划 气候变化与战略
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作者单位: Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia; Department of Communication, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States
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Gillings M.R.,Hilbert M.,Kemp D.J.. Information in the Biosphere: Biological and Digital Worlds[J]. Trends in Ecology and Evolution,2016-01-01,31(3)