Пятничное.

Для тех, кто знает про GEB, но не знает про его в каком-то смысле продолжение под названием "I Am a Strange Loop":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT5CxsyKwxg

Another beautiful reading for the weekend:

"Searching for computational zones also dissolves the boundaries between what we think of as biology and technology. At the technological extremes are hypothetical concepts like Dyson structures that would capture all of a star’s energy. If these structures are for computation, then we can figure out the design options afforded by thermodynamic and informational principles. Calculations hint that abundant substellar objects—so-called brown dwarfs, weighing in at a few percent the mass of our sun and a hundred thousand times less luminous—might be better Dyson energy sources for uncomplaining technology, but not for biology with its bothersome requirements for warmth and nutrients."

...

"It may also be the case that blended living systems are the only ones able to discover other living systems. Anything else will simply be incapable of noticing, or uninterested in what it shares the cosmos with. If that is true, we really do exist at the most exciting time for any species that has ever arisen on the Earth."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/to-find-life-in-the-universe-find-the-computation/