Life as Evolving Software, Greg Chaitin at PPGC UFRGS

[TheMarcusrobbins]

We are the music makers,

And we are the dreamers of dreams,

Wandering by lone sea-breakers,

And sitting by desolate streams;—

World-losers and world-forsakers,

On whom the pale moon gleams:

Yet we are the movers and shakers

Of the world for ever, it seems.

[65nom]

evolution too slow argument - For a single mathematical organism sure..

Now remember that there's parallelism.. and sex, so take a billion bitstreams each with a random mutation, and also allow them to combine results.. (sex)

make it perfect sex, so allow a function to xor two programs and pick the best permutation.. perhaps with some limit say no more than 8 bits of difference.. so 256 "children" leads to speciation... when progs too incompatible !

[bill4long]

@65nom He's not making an *argument* at all. His aim is to create a mathematical *proof* with regards to a very simple Darwinistic scenario.