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Jack Cohen
mathematician · 2 mentions across 1 reading
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Jack Cohen, a biologist and science writer, co-authored "Alien Science" with Ian Stewart, a foundational text that critiques xenobiology's anthropomorphic assumptions about life beyond Earth. He appears in the readings as a counterweight to conventional thinking about biological organization and emergence, particularly in discussions of how swarm behavior and collective systems resist reductive categorization. Cohen's work enables the course to question whether our concepts of "life," "intelligence," and "organism" are too narrowly calibrated to carbon-based, Earth-evolved forms, a crucial provocation for thinking about artificial life and machine collectives.
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