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SIMULATED EVOLUTION. "The 1966 book, "Artificial Intelligence Through Simulated Evolution" by Fogel, Owens and Walsh is the landmark publication for EP applications, although many other papers appear earlier in the literature. In the book, finite state automata were evolved to predict symbol strings generated from Markov processes and non-stationary time series." https://lnkd.in/eC54QCG View in LinkedIn

THE VISION. "Unleashed from the plodding pace of biological evolution, the children of our minds will be free to grow to confront immense and fundamental challenges in the larger universe. We humans will benefit for a time from their labors, but sooner or later, like natural children, they will seek their own fortunes while we, their aged parents, silently fade away." (Hans Moravec (Mind Children). https://lnkd.in/etiQ6T7 View in LinkedIn

"ARTIFICIAL LIFE imitates traditional biology by trying to recreate some aspects of biological phenomena." https://lnkd.in/eE92tBk View in LinkedIn

TWO WAY. Just as biology informs artificial life, artificial life informs biology. View in LinkedIn

EMERGENCE OF LIFE is an important question that relates to autonomous computer code or DNA equally. View in LinkedIn

HUMAN LIMITS. "The idea that we cannot produce living organisms from our own imaginations is both humbling to the pomposity of our egos, but it is also somewhat distressing. Humans, it seems, can do anything--from creating rockets which launch into space, to cloning the organisms on our planet, to power of creating incredibly powerful weapons which devastate our own kind." https://lnkd.in/etiQ6T7 View in LinkedIn

EXCEPTIONAL GROUP. “Variations in prokaryotic genomes are rare except in the proteobacteria-derived genomes of mitochondria, where the universal code is almost never used. This contrasts with almost no known changes in the cyanobacteria-derived plastids, which may reflect deeper differences in the way mitochondrial genomes evolve, perhaps rooted in a high rate of substitution.” https://lnkd.in/d87ZWbH View in LinkedIn

RANDOMLY MUTATING. "But is not genetic programming stochastic by nature? Although it operates on algorithms, it does not find these algorithms through its own algorithms--it finds them by randomly mutating and genetically crossing other patterns." https://lnkd.in/etiQ6T7 View in LinkedIn

FROZEN FORMAT. “So the code was not always thus, but once it was established before the last universal common ancestor of all extant life it has remained under very powerful selective constraints that kept the code frozen in nearly all genomes that subsequently diversified.” https://lnkd.in/d87ZWbH View in LinkedIn

DIGITAL BIOTA. "The forms of digital biota emerging in Cyberspace. Much of these biota are actually pretty simple mathematical rule sets that mimic living processes. But perhaps real life is just an matter of the scale of complexity. As these simple forms grow into more complex systems feeding off computer resources and our attention spans, perhaps we will some day see something really "alive" and really digital." https://lnkd.in/d8s-JuN View in LinkedIn