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Not only that, but a virtually unbounded population space to test. Count every single organism alive today.
by jamesrom 9y ago
Not only that, but a virtually unbounded population space to test. Count every single organism alive today.
- yters 9y agoOur top supercomputers can process tens of petaflops. That seems to easily dwarf these biological time scales you mention. There appears to be some magic in evolution that surpasses mere trial limitations.
- jamesrom 9y agoI'd like to double down and say the top supercomputers today couldn't, in reasonable time, simulate a single generation of the genetic variation in your gut flora alone.
- yters 9y agoSure, but that means the magic does not lie in evolution, but in the extreme amounts of information in biological organisms. Evolution is supposed to be able to generate incredibly complex organisms from very simple beginnings, all within a number of trials that can be simulated on today's desktop. Insofar as we displace the problem from evolution to the organism or environment we are saying there is nothing special about evolution. In which case it begs the question what is so special about evolution in the first place?