linkedin post 2019-10-24 04:58:42

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AMBITIOUS GOAL. “Evolutionary robotics is on the rise. Instead of robots being designed by human beings, machines run iterative processes to produce new code for the robot’s controller. A team of international scientists from Germany, The Netherlands, France and the UK are proposing a new framework called The Triangle of Life. Their aim is to bring the development of robots to a point where it truly mimics biological evolution.” https://lnkd.in/dyHuU2m View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2019-10-24 04:53:57

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SYNTHETIC EVOLUTION. “We propose an experimental study where simplistic organisms rise from inanimate matter and evolve solely through physical interactions. These organisms are composed of three types of macroscopic building blocks floating in an agitated medium. Our results suggest that an autonomous evolution of non-biological organisms can be realized in human-designed environments and, potentially, in natural environments as well.” https://lnkd.in/dWJXxpX View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2019-10-24 04:48:04

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DEBATE. “The Strange, Disembodied Life of Digital Organisms.The article dealt with the effort to model living, evolving organisms as little bits of supposedly living, evolving computer code, and was in part a critique of an article that appeared in the leading scientific journal, Nature, in May 2003." Read the ensuing firestorm of criticism. https://lnkd.in/diF4rQP View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2019-10-23 05:36:32

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PRIMORDIAL DIGITAL SOUP. “What would happen, McCaskill had wondered, if one made a soup of Turing machines and let them collide; one collision partner would act as the machine, and the other partner in the collision would act as the input tape. The soup of programs would act on itself, rewriting each other's programs until... Until what? Well, it didn't work. Many Turing machine programs are able to enter infinite loop and "hang." http://www.panspermia.org/computrs.htm View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2019-10-23 05:33:28

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ORIGINS. “Any theory holding that life originates on Earth de novo from nonliving chemicals has problems for which computers provide a good metaphor. The problems are in two categories, hardware and software. For life as for computers, both are required, together. After eukaryotic cellular life has become established, in this metaphor, the machinery for creating new biological hardware is in place, and the remaining problem is one of software only. How does the genetic programming for new evolutionary features get written and installed?” http://www.panspermia.org/computrs.htm View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2019-10-25 03:00:13

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THE HYPE. “But, predictably, the scientific merit of the purported "breakthroughs" is paltry at best. Notwithstanding the fad and the hype, there's, well, no news here. A BetaBeat story on the topic, "Google’s New Computer With Human-Like Learning Abilities Will Program Itself," is essentially a big, emotive headline with no real content.” http://www.evolutionnews.org/2014/10/is_google_a_ste090771.html View in LinkedIn
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