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if a physical entity reflexively exploits functional information in its memory to produce novelty - it’s Life #haikuaday

Reserve your free tickets for SFI’s first 2026 Community Lecture event, Crossroads Democracy Panel, on April 14 at the Lensic Performing Arts Center. Hosted by the Santa Fe Institute, this panel brings together scholars from political science, economics, psychology, and behavioral science to explore what research can tell us about the history of democracy, the values it requires and may promote, and whether a renewed expansion and deepening of democracy may be the best way to save it. Speakers: - Jenna Bednar, political scientist at University of Michigan, SFI External Faculty. - Samuel Bowles, economist at the Santa Fe Institute. - Hahrie Han, political scientist at Johns Hopkins University. - Katrin Schmelz, behavioral economist and psychologist at the Santa Fe Institute. - David Krakauer, President of the Santa Fe Institute and moderator of the open discussion. When: April 14, 2026 | 7:30 pm Where: Lensic Performing Arts Center, Santa Fe, NM. Free tickets: lensic.org/events/crossro… More info: santafe.edu/events/crossro… Presented free to the public thanks to generous sponsorship by the McKinnon Family Foundation, with support from The Lensic Performing Arts Center and the Santa Fe Reporter.

@AeroSciengineer bookmarking!

(1/3) Our fundamental challenges are not the failure of particular nations or institutions or businesses or civil organizations, but rather the disconnect between our economic, political, and social systems. Dennis Snower and David Sloan Wilson are ameliorating the decoupling

@ArtyAbrazo my hero!

Pero dejala a la nena comer un chocolatito vieja puta Despues te va a abandonar en un geriátrico y no vas a entender porque x.com/sherindax/stat…

@ribzoftiktok martha stewart is not 100, this pan is for baking corn bread, not for roasting corn, and great cleaning job...but did you season it?!

It's amazing what you can find at thrift stores

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Tomorrow: the 5th event in SFI’s 2025 Community Lecture Series! Join us at the Lensic Performing Arts Center for Dan Rockmore’s lecture, “Machining the Ghost: Ideating in the Age of AI” — 7:30pm. Free tickets: lensic.org/events/sfi-dan… or watch the live stream on SFI’s YouTube

In July, the National Science Foundation announced a $100 million investment in AI research, spread over six national institutes. Three SFI researchers will participate as leaders and collaborators in two of these groups: - @MelMitchell1 and Melanie Moses (UNM) with the AI Research Institute on Interaction for AI Assistants (ARIA), which will develop a framework for safe and effective AI in mental health contexts. - Cris Moore with the Institute for Foundations of Machine Learning (IFML) at UT Austin, advancing the mathematical and computational methods behind more reliable AI systems, with applications ranging from clinical imaging (MRI) to biotechnology. Read more: santafe.edu/news

Reserve your free tickets to SFI’s Community Lecture with Dan Rockmore, presenting “Machining the Ghost: Ideating in the Age of AI” on September 16 at the Lensic Performing Arts Center! Generative AI — from large language models to algorithms that create images — is reshaping how people come up with ideas — for better and for worse. It is the latest in a long history of cognitive tools. But could it also be the killer app that replaces its inventors? When: 7:30pm, September 16, 2025 Where: Lensic Performing Arts Center, Santa Fe Tickets: lensic.org/events/sfi-dan… or watch the live stream on SFI’s YouTube Presented free to the public thanks to generous sponsorship by the McKinnon Family Foundation, with support from The Lensic Performing Arts Center and the Santa Fe Reporter.

Did you miss SFI’s 30th Ulam Lectures with Nobel Laureate Venki Ramakrishnan? They're now available to watch on SFI’s YouTube channel. Two lectures on the molecular machinery of life and the science of aging. Watch here: Night 1 - youtu.be/xJ5BFBbakSk&t Night 2 - youtu.be/uhK9ElOZ7n4

Unfold the history of proteins and you find rich, unexplained complexity. This August, an SFI working group co-organized by researchers at the Earth-Life Science Institute (@ELSI_origins) and the School of Complex Adaptive Systems at Arizona State University (@ASU_SCAS) brought together machine learning and assembly theory to explore hidden rules underlying all folded matter, including proteins. The collaboration could help explain the origin of life and predict new drug candidates. santafe.edu/news-center/ne…

Reserve your free tickets to SFI’s 30th Ulam Lecture Series with Nobel Laureate Venki Ramakrishnan, August 25 and 26, 7:30pm at @TheLensic.  One night on decoding life’s machinery — the ribosome — and one on the science of aging. Join us in person or watch online on SFI's YouTube. Tickets: lensic.org/events/30th-ul… Learn more: santafe.edu/events/venki-r…

Reserve your free tickets for SFI’s Community Lecture with Gillian Tett: “Whom Do We Trust? How AI Is (Re)Shaping Our Interactions Today”. July 22, 7:30pm at @TheLensic. How is AI changing trust in society? Join us in person or watch online on SFI's YouTube. Tickets: lensic.org/events/gillian…

In our recent piece for @NoemaMag, my colleague James Manyika and I share five fundamental and interconnected paradigm shifts in our understanding of intelligence. Over the coming days, I’ll dive into each. First, natural computation.

SFI welcomes C. Brandon Ogbunu as a part-time Resident Professor! 🎉 Throughout his academic career, Ogbunu has defied categorization. As a professor at Yale, he uses modeling tools from computational biology to study the socio-political in concert with the molecular, ecological and epidemiological. In his essays for outlets like Undark, WIRED, and The Atlantic, he has written about evolutionary biology, artificial intelligence, the importance of humor in a public health crisis, and the future of hip-hop. “Discoveries,” Ogbunu says, “are made when you borrow ideas from certain disciplines and carefully and responsibly combine them.” santafe.edu/news-center/ne… @big_data_kane

@sfiscience is hiring FULL TIME FACULTY right now. App portal closes March 28th. Huge and rare opportunity to do the kind of science YOU want to do, and in Sunny Santa Fe, no less!

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Today, SFI Press published the final volume of the Foundational Papers series. Beginning in 1989, volume 4 unifies frameworks, from connectionism and scaling theory to new models and theories of transmission and contagion. Learn more: santafe.edu/news-center/ne…

I could listen to Cormac McCarthy talking about creativity and the unconscious mind for weeks

Is evolution predictable or highly contingent? This new @RSocPublishing paper explains why life here & elsewhere might be universal regarding its logic, from molecular information & cells to viruses &ecosystems. @sfiscience @philipcball @seanmcarroll royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

SFI Research Fellow Anthony Eagan’s new monograph, "Kierkegaard’s Concept of the Interesting: The Aesthetic Gulf in 'Either/Or' I", guides readers through Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard’s 1843 book exploring aesthetics. "Either/Or" is an important foundation for understanding Kierkegaard’s later works, says Eagan. And those later works are just as relevant today as they were when they were written, even, or perhaps especially, in science. “Science and philosophy have always fed one another,” says Eagan. “Philosophers benefit from being deeply in touch with science, and scientists from being deeply in touch with philosophy.” santafe.edu/news-center/ne…