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Well evolution can evolve things like DNA repair, gene transfer, and sex. That's a very different thing from evolving the representation itself. Even if it did
by Houshalter 12y ago
Well evolution can evolve things like DNA repair, gene transfer, and sex. That's a very different thing from evolving the representation itself. Even if it did happen, it's not remotely practical for computer simulations.
- nullc 12y agoTierra evolved— without extensive setup in the representational structure— viruses and other kinds of interesting parasites and countermeasures, including sexual reproduction: http://infidels.org/library/modern/meta/getalife/coretierra.html http://infidels.org/library/modern/meta/getalife/coretierra.... (this isn't to say that evolutionary approaches are all that useful, they're usually outclassed by other optimization approaches, and where they work it's either in trivial cases or with mind-boggling amounts of computation)