Going Back To The First Principles Thinking, Nature/Bio 2026 Revolution
Synopsis #
When Alan Turing and Jon von Neumann were thinking about computation, they kept coming back to biology. Turing spent his last years obsessed with how a single fertilized egg produces a leopard's spots, pattern formation from chemical gradients, order from noise. Von Neumann was building self-replicating automata, directly inspired by how cells copy themselves. The most foundational thinkers in computing were essentially asking: what if nature already solved this?
We forgot to keep asking that question.
I created a community of people who want to pick it back up, curated researchers, hackers, scientists, engineers, all obsessed with everything "bio". Biocomputing to biohacking, bio-resilience, organoid/synthetic intelligence to biosecurity, wetware to wetlab. Bring your papers, half-baked experiments, ideas, projects, and questions you're afraid to ask in a seminar room.
Why now? #
We're hitting real walls with silicon, energy consumption being the loudest one. A human brain runs on roughly 20 watts and does things our best models still can't.
Understanding computation from biology, physics, chemistry, mathematics simultaneously not sequentially, not in silos. That's first principles thinking in the actual sense, not the buzzword. And right now there's enough happening in organoid intelligence (FinalSpark, Cortical Labs), neuromorphic hardware, DNA storage and in-memory computing that these questions aren't purely theoretical anymore. People are investing their time, academic research, and money on this initiative for the future of humanity.
What this community actually is #
It's for people who think everything is connected and can't stop noticing the connections. Who feel mildly crazy in most professional spaces because "that's not your field." Who read a paper on slime mold navigation and immediately think about distributed computing, and then think about collective intelligence, and then think about how markets work, and then realize it's 3am.
No borders, no visa restrictions, no gatekeeping by institution or credential. We all have times where we get rejected and dismissed by exisiting institutions/systems that's where we realize the game is far bigger than us but we have to eventually start somewhere. We don't need to be in San Francisco to start it, we can start small on discord on my Acer Nitro laptop in India.
The conversations span drug discovery, biological neural networks, what "intelligence" even means below the level of the brain, how you'd actually integrate wetware with silicon substrates today, and the philosophy underneath all of it. Ask fundamental questions, drop a 1970s or 2019 paper that's underrated, run an experiment and share your findings.
Who am I? #
Someone with a computer science and hardware/architecture background who ended up deep in neuromorphic computing research and couldn't stop asking what the biological version of all of it actually is.
Come in #
DM me for an invite if you're exploring biotech, biocomputing, biohacking, biosecurity, or anything adjacent. If people call you delusional and you have interdisciplinary interests across psychology, philosophy, sciences, tech and sci-fi, that's exactly the filter. Let's think in systems together and discuss moonshot ideas that probably sound insane until they don't. Also, I would love to support and collaborate with such existing initiatives in deep-tech/research. Let's discuss.
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Right now we're remote on Discord. More to come.