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If it doesn't invent / learn novel things, how did it learn the one task that it does today? Where does the leap from nothing to knowledge of that one task come
by Zaheer 9y ago
If it doesn't invent / learn novel things, how did it learn the one task that it does today? Where does the leap from nothing to knowledge of that one task come in?
- ItsMe000001 9y agoMutation, genetic drift, gene flow, selection. The forces of evolution. Oh and lots of time and a huge amount of luck (not even ants can exist on Venus or Mars), but "luck" is just another word for selection bias, or looking backwards in time. > Where does the leap from nothing to knowledge of that one task come in? There is no sudden leap, only a huuuuuuuge number of tiny steps and lots of complexity of interactions.