Ian Stewart
scientist · 1 mention across 1 reading
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Ian Stewart, a mathematician and science communicator, collaborates with biologist Jack Cohen on questions of how life might organize itself under radically different physical constraints. Cohen and Stewart's work in "Alien Science" is cited to challenge the parochialism of contemporary xenobiology, arguing that our imaginative failure to envision alternative biologies reflects deeper limitations in how we theorize life itself. For a course on AI and cybernetics, their intervention matters because it opens the conceptual space for thinking about non-human intelligences and organizational systems that escape our default assumptions about what counts as living or thinking.
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