Algorithmic bottlenecks in evolution: Genetic code, symbolic language, and the Great Filter hypothesis (opens in new tab)

Mikhail Prokopenko, Nihat Ay, Angelica Breviario, Roland M. Crocker, Paul C. W. Davies, Pauline Davies, Darren Dougan, Roland Fletcher, Michael Harré, Marcus G. Heisler, Zdenka Kuncic, Geraint F. Lewis, Ori Livson, Vivienne Reiner, Jaime Ruiz Serra The Great Filter hypothesis proposes that the emergence of technological societies capable of interstellar travel depends on a small number of exceptionally hard and highly improbable steps. Traditional versions of this hypothesis enumerate such "h...