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CHAPTER III — ORGANISM
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Kate Vass: Your work repeatedly returns to the boundary between living systems and computational ones. Do you believe life is ultimately a property of matter, or of organization?
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KV: Abiogenesis asks us to imagine life emerging from non-living matter through the imagination of a neural network. What fascinated you more while making the work, the origin of life, or the possibility that artificial systems might eventually develop something analogous to it?
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KV: Conway's cells never learn—they simply execute the same rules forever. Your work often explores systems that adapt through experience. At what point does learning fundamentally change the nature of a computational system?
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KV: In The Thinking Ocean, intelligence no longer appears as an individual object but as an ecology, a continuously evolving environment. Do you think intelligence is something that belongs to an individual, or something that emerges from relationships between many interacting processes?
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KV: The exhibition ultimately asks a single question: Can emergence itself become conscious? After years of studying biological systems, neural networks, and artificial life, do you think consciousness is another emergent phenomenon, or does it require something fundamentally beyond computation?
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