Biology Doesn't Exist

There is no such thing as biology.

There is no such thing as chemistry.

There is no such thing as physics.

Biology is just a word that humans invented so that they can say they are "biologists" on their resume and get jobs as "biologists".

Underlying all of science is mathematics. Underlying all real world mathematical relations is complex dynamical systems. When you understand the world this way you can make inferences across these synthetic fields of science many others don't even attempt. Because they are a X and not a X' where X can be computer scientist, biologist, chemist, and so forth.

A complex system is a system with parts that seem simple or easy to understand and model by themselves, but when combined lose this simplicity. We see this effect everywhere - in all science. Further, the impact and flavor of this effect is similar and core to many of the hardest or unsolved problems in the various fields. The three body problem in physics and three dimensional matching problem in computer science for example. Something goes from trivial to intractable simply by adding a third. Almost if it's not just a property of the Universe, but of computation itself.

An insight that follows from this line of thought is that information and computation are one and the same. I can compute most physical information from first principles if I had a good handle of the rules and a superfast computer. The rules for the information and observation and the reality created by the computation are just expressions of the same thing. All information we know of, indeed all information, is just frozen-in-time outputs of steady iterations of simple rules.

Artificial intelligence is full of complex systems and computational-information. New insights in complex systems will inform new ways of doing AI or vice versa. But it will also provide new insights in physics and biology too because they are all just different expressions of this same science.

Many scientists who discovered this insight find it to become affecting. It's a very profound insight. Stephan Wolfram the wunderkind creator of Mathematica worked much of his life on cellular automata. These automata are complex dynamical systems expressed with very simple rules. The Santa Fe Institute is an organization that focuses on complex systems research.

I am very disheartened that we spend so many billions on the way science is done today while such organizations are funded with peanuts.