Ever since I discovered Michael Levin and his work, I started seeing biological systems as information systems. And these papers seem to point in the same direction.
Architecture, then clockwork, then steam, then machines, now computing.
I don’t think it’s wrong in anyway to do this, but I do think it’s interesting!
https://www.youtube.com/live/kQBwtgkHnC4?si=X_QnJULdoPX5jOxY
Hananel from that lab gave a talk about this at the Boston AGI society meetup (bad sound but captions work:
I am not a biologist but it seems to me, based on the podcasts that I hear, that his theories are becoming more accepted and there are also more and more people from outside the biology field looking into his theories of "diverse intelligence"; he has a podcast where he discusses related things with scientists from various fields.