Year: 2022

IMAGINING THE UNIMAGINABLE. "Adami believes that his research may also prove useful in the search for extraterrestrial life. One of the difficult questions that astrobiologists struggle with is how they will be able to recognize the biosignature of life forms on other worlds that may have a different chemical foundation than life on Earth." https://lnkd.in/d4b3fY4 View in LinkedIn

SKEW FROM RANDOM. "Digital organisms that have evolved through many generations display a curious pattern of instructions. "Some instructions are used much more often and some other instructions are used much, much, much less than their random occurrence." https://lnkd.in/d4b3fY4 View in LinkedIn

AMINO ACID SKEW. "A similar pattern can be seen among amino acids on Earth. Wherever life is at work, the amino acids favored by biological organisms appear in much higher concentrations than they do in the absence of life." https://lnkd.in/d4b3fY4 View in LinkedIn

VIRTUAL evolution is imprecise. "The solutions were a mess! Evolution went the long way around. Or it burrowed through the problem by some circuitous loophole of logic. Evolution was chock-full of redundancy. It was inelegant." https://lnkd.in/d3G_hCh View in LinkedIn

MESSY. "The standard evolutionary picture tells us that evolution is messy, incomplete and inefficient." https://lnkd.in/dycehf5 View in LinkedIn

SEX AND EFFICIENCY. "Evolutionary theory predicts that natural selection should be less efficient in asexually than in sexually reproducing organisms. Obligate asexuals are expected to adapt slowly to changing environments and to accumulate mildly deleterious mutations to their genomes, potentially explaining their typically short evolutionary lifespans." https://lnkd.in/dgGXaM6 View in LinkedIn

VIRTUAL EVOLUTION. "Rather than remove an erroneous selection, evolution would just add a countercorrecting solution, or reroute the main event around the bad sector. The final formula had the appearance of being some miraculous Rube Goldberg collection of items that by some happy accident worked." https://lnkd.in/d3G_hCh View in LinkedIn

ALL OVER THE PLACE. "The bazaar is like evolution: messy, inefficient, and slow. Lots of bad ideas are tried; a lot of them stick around for as long as they provide more value than they subtract; and progress takes a long time. Just as the human body has components that are useless today (e.g., the coccyx), evolving software ecosystems always carry a lot useless baggage. That's how evolution works." https://lnkd.in/dbVEZAf View in LinkedIn

CHAOS BEATS SMARTS. "Evolution copes better than intelligent, top-down design with the evolving constraints of a market landscape that is constantly shifting." https://lnkd.in/dbVEZAf View in LinkedIn

"THE EVOLVED VIRTUAL CREATURES project was developed in 1994 at Thinking Machines Corporation. I was an Artist in Residence there, and was given the task of showing the computational ability of their Connection Machine (one of the first parallel processing supercomputers) in a visually demonstrable way." https://lnkd.in/dqVFHaZ View in LinkedIn