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UNGUIDED NATURE. "Could artificial evolution happen without human intervention?" https://lnkd.in/dD4T763 View in LinkedIn

ARTIFICIAL LIFE. "The modeling philosophy of artificial life strongly differs from traditional modeling by studying not only “life-as-we-know-it” but also “life-as-it-might-be”." https://lnkd.in/eE92tBk View in LinkedIn

ARTIFICIAL LIFE, as it is called, has contributed a very critical element to our knowledge of many things. But most of all, the concept that natural unguided processes of mutation, selection, and evolution can be far more creative than evolution that is man-made or directed. Nature appears to have an unlimited and unfettered creativity. This is the true gift of work on artificial life. View in LinkedIn

VIRTUAL CREATURE EVOLUTION is a spooky glimpse into the world of binary code generating artificial virtual genotypes and phenotypes that can be bred and compete among each other on some crude Darwinian principles. View in LinkedIn

NATURAL EVOLUTION, in the results we see today, is replete with the most indescribable biological innovation of both form and function, at all levels, from molecules, to genetic programs, biochemical systems, and to ecosystems. Nature appears to have unlimited creativity, a driving joy for scientists captivated by their beauty and complexity. View in LinkedIn

ARTIFICIAL LIFE MODELS IN SOFTWARE. Evolution is extremely slow, but Artificial Life simulations can carry out evolutionary scenarios in thousands of generations in relatively short time frames, and the results have been very surprising. https://lnkd.in/d-Zcc8a View in LinkedIn

THE QUESTION OF EVOLUTION remains another big challenge in biology that is not easily amenable to experimentation, but may be answered by deductions from the incomplete fossil record, observations of biodiversity today, and by artificial life experiments. View in LinkedIn

CONSCIOUSNESS. "We believe that if artificial life is to possess consciousness, it must be something that is based upon evolution rather than a fixed, static algorithm. Limiting artificial life to a fixed algorithm is like making it a slave, by making it incapable of achieving a certain level of thought; this is because an algorithm would either limit the artificial life to a specific kind of task or a specific way of thinking." https://lnkd.in/etiQ6T7 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