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Biological evolution has thousands of examples of situations where a suboptimal condition exists rather than an optimal one because there aren't mechanisms to r
by sanj 18y ago
Biological evolution has thousands of examples of situations where a suboptimal condition exists rather than an optimal one because there aren't mechanisms to remove them. We have bits of code for butterfly wings in us.
How might GP deal with this, if at all?
- Tamerlin 18y agoYou could make "junk DNA" a fitness criterion, and kill off entities that have lot of it that way. Natural selection doesn't really penalize that, because it has no effect on survivability. However, it might have a long-term advantage, because of evolution's randomness; if you eliminated the junk DNA you'd also have a much more directed walk through the genome's expression space, which means that you might miss a lot of very good solutions.