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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

LOOPHOLE. "In a typical developer’s environment the available de-bugging and disassembling tools are not perfect and have limitations that can be exploited by self-modifying code." https://lnkd.in/dHTSZ_H View in LinkedIn

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

GEEK TALK. "Evolution has produced massively parallel software with enormous complexity embedded in wetware." https://lnkd.in/d_8VqjV View in LinkedIn

CAMBRIAN EXPLOSION OF DIVERSITY. "Tierra creatures take resources (energy) and compete for computer time and computer memory, in order to reproduce themselves, and promote their survival. Tierra is a type of evolutionary process in a completely alien environment that can diversify like organic life had. It very quickly diversified and became very rich without any further help from Ray." https://lnkd.in/d_8VqjV View in LinkedIn

DIGITAL JUNGLE. "In short, by infecting the Net with self-replicating code, Ray aims to turn it into a jungle." https://lnkd.in/edrARjk View in LinkedIn

FREUD LIVES. "And if all goes according to plan, he will keep on breeding them until he has achieved a goal far more adventurous than anything yet attempted by other virus programmers – infusing the vast unused spaces of the global computer networks with a roiling digital ecology as complex, as fascinating, and ultimately as beneficial to humankind as the rain forests that he has long sought to protect and understand." https://lnkd.in/edrARjk View in LinkedIn

DIGECOLOGY. "Ray foresees digital naturalists like "modern day tropical biologists exploring our organic jungles." https://lnkd.in/edrARjk View in LinkedIn

DIGI-BIOTIC ECOLOGY. "He is confident that once his "one-celled" simple self-replicating organisms encounter the immensity, the topological intricacy, and the fluid instability of the Net, they will quickly rise to the occasion and evolve into tightly coordinated multicellular conglomerates, thus setting off the dreamed-of Big Bang of complex digi-biotic diversity. 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