P A I C

(Prime Artificial Intelligence Constitutor; LUCA’s successor and digital imposter)

There is a hypothesis that all living forms of life on Earth had one universal common ancestor — LUCA (the Last Universal Common Ancestor). It wasn’t the first living organism, but the one from which all currently living organisms descended. By analysing fossilised remains, we can only imagine the structure of this one-cell being. The molecular mechanisms of its life activity may be reconstructed by analysing the DNA of all organisms alive today. “LUCA = PAIC” is the hypothesis of Olesya Gonserovskaya, where as an ancestor of artificial life will be considered a device for detecting movement, capable of telling themselves apart from others.

Location: the file cabinets in reading rooms.