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"THE GENETIC ALGORITHM is a model of machine learning which derives its behavior from a metaphor of some of the mechanisms of evolution in nature. This is done by the creation within a machine of a population of individuals represented by chromosomes, in essence a set of character strings that are analogous to the base-4 chromosomes that we see in our own DNA. The individuals in the population then go through a process of simulated "evolution"." https://lnkd.in/dNx-Znv View in LinkedIn

PREBIOTIC CALCULATIONS. "We have therefore argued in the past that prebiotic scenarios may be adequately described in terms of planet-scale random chemistry reactions. Based on a count of about 1 million molecule types for alkanes with up to 20 carbon atoms, it may be estimated that for compounds containing all CHNOPS atoms (Carbon, Hydrogen, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Phosphorus and Sulfur) the number would be much larger than one billion." http://www.weizmann.ac.il/molgen/Lancet/sites/molgen.Lancet/files/uploads/shenhav_lancet_core.pdf View in LinkedIn

ECOSYSTEMS. "Genetic programming, autonomous agents, artificial life and evolutionary computation share many common ideas. They generally investigate distributed complex processes, perhaps with the ability to interact." https://lnkd.in/dBswHTH View in LinkedIn

MOLECULAR EVOLUTION is a topic on its own. But how evolving molecules crossed the line to give rise to complex organizations that were self-reproducing, capable of evolving, and accrued intelligence is another issue. Both topics are at the heart of biology, but our understanding of them is slight to non-existent. View in LinkedIn

"GENETIC PROGRAMMING (GP) is method for automatically creating computer programs. It starts from a high-level statement of what needs to be done and uses the Darwinian principle of natural selection to breed a population of improving programs over many generations." Not what it sounds like. https://lnkd.in/dhwv8HE View in LinkedIn

ANTICIPATION. "Such evolutionary prediction was motivated by a recognition that prediction is a keystone to intelligent behavior (defined in terms of adaptive behavior, in that the intelligent organism must anticipate events in order to adapt behavior in light of a goal)." http://www6.uniovi.es/ftp/pub/EC/FAQ/www/Q1_2.htm View in LinkedIn

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