Month: September 2022

THE QUESTION. "Can the evolutionary process develop that kind of software embedded in the digital world, in computers?" https://lnkd.in/d_8VqjV View in LinkedIn

THE PLAN. "The global internet is the planet for Project Tierra under open source volunteer projects. They may choose to migrate around the planet in the dark side where there is more CPU, which is borrowed at night." https://lnkd.in/d_8VqjV View in LinkedIn

PREDICTING UNPREDICTABILITY. "It is best to not to guide evolution and let natural selection find its own solutions because we cannot possibly imagine what is out there." https://lnkd.in/d_8VqjV View in LinkedIn

BEYONG HUMAN IMAGINATION. "Just as in the pre-Cambian explosion, an observer could not possibly have imagined the later diversity of life forms." https://lnkd.in/d_8VqjV View in LinkedIn

FREE EVOLUTION. "We are in the same position with respect to the evolution of digital organisms. Ray is creating large biodiversity reserves in cyberspace for future digital creatures where they can evolve freely." https://lnkd.in/d_8VqjV View in LinkedIn

THE START. "Primed to carry out the requisite natural selections, Ray's digital ecosphere was nearly complete. He called it Tierra (Spanish for "earth") and started preparing the final touch: an inhabitant. Later dubbed "the Ancestor," it was the first worm Tom Ray ever created – an 80-byte-long self-replicating machine written in Tierra's quirky assembly language – and as it happens, it was also the last." https://lnkd.in/edrARjk View in LinkedIn

LET FREE. "Once loosed into the Tierra environment installed on Ray's laptop, the creature's offspring quickly spread to the new world's every corner, within minutes displaying the evolutionary transformations that would "write" Ray's organisms from then on." https://lnkd.in/edrARjk View in LinkedIn

INNOVATIVE SURVIVAL. "The swift and drastic size reductions of those first runs startled Ray, but even more remarkable were the survival strategies these variants encoded. The 45- and 51-byte creatures, it turned out, were not worms but bona fide parasitic viruses, achieving their leanness by borrowing reproductive code from larger programs when they needed to copy themselves." https://lnkd.in/edrARjk View in LinkedIn

AMPLIFIED. "I realized that the global network is just a loosely connected parallel computer, and much larger and more powerful than anything that will ever exist as a single machine." And thus was born Ray's plan to colonize the Net." https://lnkd.in/edrARjk View in LinkedIn

JURASSIC PARK. "A Proposal To Create a Network-Wide Biodiversity Reserve for Digital Organisms" (Tom Ray). https://lnkd.in/edrARjk View in LinkedIn