Cybernetics? Does anyone actually use it? It's like talking about transistors compared to AI and computer science. Most probably there are still some dads who are interested in Radio innards.
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza
Heart pacemakers are probably the closest we have to an actual prevalent electronic alteration of body
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza
Yeah, but it keeps a failing part of it from failing even earlier. If you mean the word as a complete body change that keeps you immortal, that's not ever gonna happen. Obsolecence comes much faster than death.
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Replying to @sapolsky_ @CuteMutePrude
True but the measure of complexity for a given structure is not just robustness, but also generative entrenchment. The more a structure evolves, the more the past and existing constraints are entrenched, to the point that sometimes change in the colloquial sense becomes untenable
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Replying to @sapolsky_ @CuteMutePrude
Think of a very simplistic example. Building a wall, so you lay the first layer of the bricks, then next and next. Now as you move upward you realize how the bricks are structured, and the way you are limited to only a certain kinds of actions or architectural configurations.
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This is called dynamic stability in complexity sciences. Certain features of the system cannot be changed not only because they are foundational but because any action on the system is actually informed by such entrenched constraints.
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