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Nature has one thing most evolutionary algorithms don't: environmental changes. That has a way of stirring up the pot. Which is not at all to say that you're w
by ACCount37 1y ago
Nature has one thing most evolutionary algorithms don't: environmental changes. That has a way of stirring up the pot.
Which is not at all to say that you're wrong. A lot of the known major environmental changes were brought upon by other creatures - sometimes creatures that found some weird new way of doing things, and upended the environment with it.
- vannevar 1y agoYou are 100% right. In nature, the fitness landscape is not fixed, it is dependent on the co-evolution of other organisms at every scale. So the computational model is too simple to be a reliable guide. But in this case, if you assume constant fitness over some delta-t (kind of like calculus), I think it's still a plausible explanation for the divergence phenomenon in particular. Just a hypothesis, though, for sure.