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Jan 31Liked by Manlio De Domenico

Hi, Prof. De Domenico

You might also find this work interesting (https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-3440555/v2), which is motivated by Francois Jacob's concept of tinkering and similar ideas, and falls within the broader category of Algorithmic Information Theory.

More importantly, it can characterize the hierarchical and nested relationships among repetitive substructures.

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This reminds me of a paper Carl Woese worked on with Nigel Goldenfeld in 2008: https://arxiv.org/pdf/0712.3332.pdf

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Thanks for the pointer, I'll take a look for sure

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