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Pedia Sapiens: A Planetary Progeny Comes to Her/His Own Actual Factual Twintelligent Knowledge

Scheurer, Christoph and Karsten Reuter. Role of the human-in-the-loop in emerging self-driving laboratories for heterogeneous catalysis.. Nature Catalysis. January 29, 2025. We cite this entry by Max Planck Institute researchers as an example of new realizations that AI machinations ought not to be turned loose to run on their own. It After some thirty months of ChatGPTs, a constant reciprocity of AI inputs and human management is seen to achieve a best balance in ethical co-generative applications

Self-driving laboratories (SDLs) represent a convergence of machine learning with laboratory automation which operate in active learning situations as algorithms plan experiments that are carried out by automated (robotic) modules. Here we argue against humans totally out of the loop. We instead conclude that crucial advances will come from fast proxy experiments, existing apparatus with real persons making continuous decision-making. (Excerpt)

Cui, Hao and Taha Yasseri. AI-enhanced collective intelligence.. Patterns. 511, 2024. In this Elsevier journal, University College Dublin sociologists propose another sensible version of optimum individual and group interactivities with properly suitable and managed generative algorithmic learnings and methods.

The challenges facing society today are becoming so complex they surpass what human efforts alone can manage. As artificial intelligence (AI) evolves, some believe that it could bypass human intelligence and solve these problems. Instead, we contend that AI can better enhance personal and group capabilities rather than replace them. People bring intuition, creativity, and diverse experiences, while AI offers computational power and rapid processing. Combining these strengths can create a level of collective intelligence greater than the sum of its parts. (Excerpt)

Complex system thinking has illuminated various biological, physical, and social domains. Based on this, we can model real-world CI systems as multilayer networks. This framework allows us to leverage extensive research on multilayer networks, focusing on their robustness, adaptivity, scalability, resilience, and interoperability. (13

Riedl, Christoph and David De Cremer, eds. The potential and challenges of AI for collective intelligence. Collective Intelligence. February, 2025. Twenty-two practitioners in the UK and USA such as Gina Lucarelli, John Cartlidge and Joan Condell describe how their projects such as PSi: A scalable approach to community-led public decision-making; The AI4CI loop and Perspectives and on the UNDP Accelerator Network are integrating and taking advantage of these novel occasions.

Tackling large scale problems like climate change and the Sustainable Development Goals, requires taking a collective approach. Artificial Intelligence (AI) offers tremendous potential to enhance collective intelligence, both as an actor that contributes to the solution directly, and as a tool and mentor that helps coordinate human collective intelligence. Collective Intelligence invited experts and practitioners to highlight key challenges and explain how they employ AI to advance novel solutions.

Ecosmos: A Revolutionary Fertile, Habitable, Solar-Bioplanet, Incubator Lifescape

Galvin, Daniel, et al. Abundant ammonia and nitrogen-rich soluble organic matter in samples from asteroid Bennu. Nature Astronomy.. January 29, 2025. In an article that merited news coverage, NASA Goddard astroscientists describe a unique opportunity to study meteoric surface compositions which are not contaminated by impacting our planet. These carbonaceous materials were retrieved by the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security–Regolith Explorer mission (NASA website). See also An evaporite sequence from ancient brine recorded in Bennu samples by T. J. McCoy et al in Nature (January 29, 2025) for a companion article. Altogether this achievement is being viewed as strong evidence of a complex biochemical, evolutionary course which would well distinguish an innately fertile Ecosmos.

Organic matter in meteorites can reveal clues about early Solar System chemistry and the origin of molecules important to life, but their terrestrial exposure complicates interpretation. However samples returned from the asteroid Bennu by the Origin Explorer mission enabled us to study pristine carbonaceous astromaterial and detect amino acids, formaldehyde, carboxylic acids, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and N-heterocycles (all five nucleobases in DNA and RNA), along with ~10,000 N-bearing chemical species.

Additional analyses of Bennu samples, coupled with laboratory analogue experiments helped us further understand the origin and evolution of prebiotic organic matter and chemical links between volatile-rich asteroids and primitive icy bodies. Similar asteroids could have been a source ol compounds such as ammonia, amino acids, nucleobases, phosphates and other chemical precursors that contributed to the prebiotic inventory that led to the emergence of life on Earth. (8)

Whalen, Daniel, et al.. Abundant Water from Early Supernovae at Cosmic Dawn.. arXiv:2501.02051. In this year when instrumental and mathematical capabilities are able to span and plumb the any realm of space and time, DW and Christopher Jessop, Portsmouth University and Muhammad Latif, United Arab Emirates University astrophysicists can now detect and report an earliest, spontaneous occurrence of aqueous solutions in the first hundred million galactic years. Such an immediate, spontaneous occasion, it would seem to infer an inherently fertile, procreative natural genesis.

Primordial supernovae (Pop III) were the first nucleosynthetic engines in the Universe which forged the heavy elements required for the later formation of planets and life. Here we show that the first water in the Universe formed in Pop III core-collapse and enriched with primordial water to mass fractions similar to those in the Solar System today. Besides revealing that a primary ingredient for life was already in place in the early Universe, our simulations find that water was a key constituent of the first galaxies. (Excerpts)

Rohde, Peter, et al. The Quantum Internet: The Second Revolution.. arXiv:2501.12107. Seventeen theorists and researchers in Australia, the UK, USA, China, Finland, Japan, United Arab Emirates, Ireland and Singapore post over 370 pages of a most thorough survey of 21st century quantum phenomena to date, which then suggest an array of consequent, beneficial applications and ultimately a global neurosphere. A six page outline courses from Mathematical Foundations to Cloud Quantum Computing and onto New Frontier Essays. As another March madness now sweeps over our auspicious bioworld, at the same while a prodigious Earthica may begin to open and blaze quantum quest frontiers ton a track to a twintelligent Gaiability. See also Quantum Internet: Technologies, Protocols, and Research Challenges by Vinay Kumar, et al at arXiv:2502.01653 for another initiative.

The desire to share and unite remote digital assets facilitated the classical internet. Here we present models for quantum networking, how they might be applied, and their implications. The different scaling in the computational power of quantum computers changes the dynamics of how they will operate. We anticipate cloud quantum computing to outsource quantum computations to the network and foresee future versions united into a global virtual quantum computer. The work is divided into technical sections as well as extensive societal sections for nearer and farther understandings. (Excerpt)

Gong, Yan, et al. Future Cosmology: New Physics and Opportunity from the China Space Station Telescope. arXiv:2501.15023. We note this entry by fourteen Chinese Academy of Sciences astrophysicists about a nationwide exploratory endeavor which plans to go forth into the farthest reaches of space and time. Our notice is that in the midst of worsening ethnic and geopolitical strife, an evolutionary Earthuman drive to deepseek, learn and gain knowledge presses on apace. We could cite similar instances for Russia.

The China Space Station Telescope (CSST) is the next-generation Stage~IV survey telescope. Here we review several CSST cosmological probes, such as weak gravitational lensing, two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) galaxy cluster abundance, cosmic void, baryonic acoustic oscillations (BAO) and more to discover new physics and opportunities in cosmology. We find that CSST will measure matter distribution from small to large scales, expansion history of the Universe and dark energy properties.

Bianconi, Ginestra. Gravity from Entropy. Physical Review D. 111, 066001, 2025. The Queen Mary University of London mathematician continues her luminous theoretic studies by scoping out perceptive pathways to an historic unified synthesis of nature’s deepest fundamental qualities. Science news reports noted the article as a significant contribution.

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Gravity is seen as derived from an entropic action which couples matter fields with geometry. While the geometry of spacetime is defined by its metric, matter fields can define an alternative metric, which describes the interplay between spacetime and matter. The proposed entropic action is the quantum relative entropy between the metric of spacetime and the metric induced by the matter fields. A canonical quantization of this field theory could bring new insights into quantum gravity and clarify the role that the G-field could have for dark matter. (Abstract)

The relation between general relativity, statistical mechanics and information theory is a central research topic in theoretical physics. Recently, important results have been obtained relating information theory, entanglement entropy and gravity involving the holographic principle, the entanglement properties of quantum field theory and the theory of von Neumann algebras. A comprehensive statistical mechanics approach to gravity can bring conceptual insights into the ultimate theory for black holes, dark matter and quantum phases. (1)

Fullwood, James and Vlatko Vedra. Geometry from quantum temporal correlations. arXiv:2502.13293. As individual and global studies continue apace to quantify the natural essence of a quantum and classical universe, this latest posting by Hainan University, China and Oxford University physicists (search VV) plumbs mathematical depths to an extent that we collaborative peoples seem meant to carry out this vital task of ecosmic self-description. See also Observation of the quantum equivalence principle for matter-waves by Or Dobkowski, et al at arXiv:2502.14535 and Gravity from Entropy by Ginestra Bianconi at arXiv:2408.1439. We note again that into springtime of this year, an increase in sophisticated synthese like these and our PediaPedia Earthica content may inform a consummate, salutary discovery.

In this work, we show how Euclidean 3-space emerges from the structure of quantum temporal correlations associated with Pauli observables on a single qubit. These quantum temporal correlations are independent of the initial state of the qubit, which enables an observer to extract geometric data from sequential measurements without having knowledge of initial conditions. We also suggest that space itself may emerge in such a way, and formulate such a hypothetical phenomenon. (Abstract)

There is a growing consensus in theoretical physics that spacetime is not a primitive notion. In particular, as opposed to a quantization where our quantum descriptions of nature are derived from a classical starting point which assumes the existence of space and time, it is now widely held that these notions imply a more fundamental description of reality, whether it be a quantum description or something else altogether. (1)

Zheng, Zhiling, et al. Large language models for reticular chemistry. Nature Reviews Materials. February, 2025. This contribution by six UC Berkeley chemists including Jennifer Chayes and Omar Yaghi presently proceeds to combine AI linguistic sources with an emphasis on networks between molecular complexities as a way to better delve and design novel material benefits.

Reticular chemistry is the science of networking molecular units into composites structures such as metal–organic and covalent organic assemblies. Large language models (LLMs), a type of generative AI, can augment laboratory research by extracting knowledge from literature, designing materials and interpreting experimental data. In this Perspective, we explore the concepts and methods used to apply LLMs such as prompt engineering, method augmentation and fine-tuning. (Excerpt)

McGlothin, Connor, et al. Autocatalytic Nucleation and Self-Assembly of Inorganic Nanoparticles into Complex Biosimilar Networks.. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64/9, 2025. In this premier European chemistry journal, Center of Complex Particle Systems, University of Michigan science scholars including Paul Bogdan illuminate nature’s intrinsic usage of these creative reactivities in every instance and then describe how they spontaneously organize into active, viable network topologies. This whole scale scenario is taken further as it seen to apply to deeper material domains. The emergence of NanoParticle systems with quantifiable similarities to biological patterns may provide the missing link between inorganic and organic complex systems. So once more in the scientific periodicals, a common, phenomenal consistency from an ecosmic uniVerse all the way to ourselves becomes evident.

Self-replication of bioorganic molecules and oil microdroplets have been explored as models in prebiotic chemistry. An analogous process for inorganic nanomaterials would involve the autocatalytic nucleation of metal, semiconductor, or ceramic nanoparticles-an area that remains largely uncharted. A demonstration of such systems would be especially relevant if they were seen to self-assemble into complex structures. Here, we show that an autocatalytic nucleation of nanoparticles yields conformal networks with hierarchical organization, including “colonies.” This work establishes mathematical and structural parallels between biotic and abiotic matter, integrating self-organization, autocatalytic nucleation, and theoretical description of complex systems. (Excerpt)

Scheurer, Christoph and Karsten Reuter. Role of the human-in-the-loop in emerging self-driving laboratories for heterogeneous catalysis. Nature Catalysis.. January 29, 2025. We cite this entry by Max Planck Institute researchers as an example of current realizations that such AI machinations cannot be turned loose to run on their own. Constant informed management is now becoming seen as an Imperative necessity in every generative application.

Self-driving laboratories (SDLs) represent a convergence of machine learning with laboratory automation which operate in active learning situations as algorithms plan experiments that are carried out by automated (robotic) modules. Here we argue against humans totally out of the loop. We instead conclude that crucial advances will come from fast proxy experiments, existing apparatus with real persons making continuous decision-making. (Excerpt)

Hincks, Adam. Does a Fine-Tuned Universe Tell Us Anything About God?. arXiv:2502.12083. A University of Toronto astrophysicist and Jesuit theologian first provides an expanded retinue of the precise parameters throughout the natural atomic and cosmic milieu. As they quite imply some formative agency in effect, for instance a creative divinity, such an attribution is left in abeyance.

The apparent fine-tuning of several fundamental parameters that determine the properties of our Universe and make it hospitable to life is sometimes used as an argument for God from design. I review this concept and examine the claim that God is its most probable cause. While not it setting aside, I argue that it is in tension with the more apophatic approach to God in the Abrahamic traditions. I then analyze the contingency of fine-tuning that situates it within the classical analogy of being that points to the Divinity.

Bohl, Abigail, et al. Probing the Limits of Habitability: A Catalog of Rocky Exoplanets in the Habitable Zone. arXiv:2501.14054. Cornell University astrophysicists including Lisa Kaltenegger propose and scope out an initial catalog to begin our planned galactic neighborhood cavnas.

Several ground and space based searches have increased the known exoplanets to nearly 6000. While most are highly unlike our Earth, a rocky world in a stellar Habitable Zone (HZ) can provide locales for life in the cosmos. However, a tabulation that observers can use to investigate does not yet exist. In regard, we identify 67 rocky worlds in an empirical HZ and 38 in a narrower 3D-model HZ. This first population will help shape search strategies with the JWST, the Extremely Large Telescope, and Habitable Worlds Observatory. (Abstract)

Livio, Mario and Jack Szostak. Is Earth Exceptional?: The Quest for Cosmic Life.. New York: Basic Books, 2024. A unique pairing of a literate physicist and a chemistry laureate share and combine their latest understandings of extraterrestrial and prebiotic occasions of habitable occasions of minimal living, sensory systems. Since their extensive, referenced survey extends through 2023, although the evidence augurs for an especial significance, an answer conclusion remains in abeyance. But as Szostak’s describes his 21st century biochemical studies, into 2024 and now 2025 it seems that an ordained course from universe to us is indeed unfolding on its own..

Mario Livio is an astrophysicist who worked with the Hubble Space Telescope. He is also author of seven books, including The Golden Ratio. Jack Szostak is a professor of chemistry at the University of Chicago, where he leads the Center for the Origin of Life. He shared a 2009 Nobel Prize for his research.

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