Virtual Evolution

Evolution is a process which will ALWAYS occur in living things...even if those things exist in a virtual world.....

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[benbisley]

Fascinating. Thanks. As I understand it, information, mutation of information and phenotypic success combine to promote evolution irrespective of mechanism (as long as it's functional.) Would I be right?

[HowieInTheUK]

@benbisley

Absolutely right Ben.... as long as the basic rule that "like begets like" applies. Darwin called it Descent with Modification.

Evolution is a process, an algorithm. As long as the ingredients of the algorithm are there ANYTHING will evolve

[IloveYOUviruses]

you take biological progress as morphological variables, that's a fatal mistake, we are not made in that way, rather, our morphological information is encrypted in recombinable genes, many ppl is decieved by an evolutionary model that is the grandson of the long ago refuted lamarckism.

This only shows the lack of mechanisms for evolution that deals with the DNA and the many-mutations problem.

[HowieInTheUK]

@IloveYOUviruse

Totally incorrect!

You either didn’t make any effort whatsoever to look into how the mathematics of Genetic Algorithms are structured, or you did so and are incapable of understanding basic mathematics. These algorithms work at the level of the Genotype to produce the resultant changes in the Phenotype (the morphology) exactly as you say is required.

Just simple clue for the mathematically incapable- they are called GENETIC algorithms because they are genetic in how they work

[IloveYOUviruses]

@HowieInTheUK who you trying to decieve? you can make genetic algorithms with any type of variable, did you really thought that they were coded tru layers of DNA-like encryption? that would be so laughable from you.

you guys still hold on to the old darwinian model, this is no different from the story of Lamarck's giraffes falsified by geneticists 100 years ago

[HowieInTheUK]

@IloveYOUviruses

Nonsense!

DNA encodes genetic INFORMATION. The MECHANISM of encoding genetic information is irrelevant, it is the INFORMATION itself that counts. Genetic Algorithms encode and handle genetic INFORMATION in the same way as DNA. That is all that matters.

Your nonsensical argument is exactly akin to saying that since two chickens plus two chickens is four chickens ALL ADDITION must be carried out only using chickens

[5teampunker]

Those two grasping limbs send shivers down my spine. This is porn for a biologist.

[HowieInTheUK]

well... what's so special is that these programs can design things, things best adapted to solve the problems at hand. They design things by a blind and simple process, rather than the way WE do, by trying to deduce what design might be best for the situation. The designs of Evolutionary Algorithms are often suprisingly better than the ones that we deduced.