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DOG IS MY COPILOT. "Sims agrees with Oxford zoologist Richard Dawkins, who makes the case in The Blind Watchmaker that the universe did not require an intelligent agent to establish evolution. Sims adds, "I think we are an example." https://lnkd.in/dD4T763 View in LinkedIn

RANDOM CREATIVITY. "Evolutionary design...can often solve problems better than we can using our own intelligence." https://lnkd.in/d4b3fY4 View in LinkedIn

LIMITED ONLY BY OUR DESIGN. "As computers become more powerful, the creation of virtual actors, whether animal, human, or completely unearthly, may be limited mainly by our ability to design them, rather than our ability to satisfy their computational requirements. A control system that someday actually generates “intelligent” behavior might tend to be a complex mess beyond our understanding." (Karl Sims). https://lnkd.in/dh-4NJm View in LinkedIn

"IMAGINATION was given to man to compensate for what he is not; a sense of humour to console him for what he is." (Francis Bacon). View in LinkedIn

MESSY. "The standard evolutionary picture tells us that evolution is messy, incomplete and inefficient." https://lnkd.in/dycehf5 View in LinkedIn

INFLUENCE OF THE DESIGNER. "The ability of most artificial evolutionary systems is primarily limited by the interpreter that defines the man-made elementary functions. For example, the ability of genetic programming is determined by a set of terminal functions prepared by the designer." https://lnkd.in/d-nkQc4 View in LinkedIn

VIRTUAL evolution is imprecise. "The solutions were a mess! Evolution went the long way around. Or it burrowed through the problem by some circuitous loophole of logic. Evolution was chock-full of redundancy. It was inelegant." https://lnkd.in/d3G_hCh View in LinkedIn

MAN'S IMAGINATION may arguably be the greatest asset of the human species, but it is infinitely dwarfed by the raw creativity of nature's boundless forms. Even undirected random mutation devices can construct the unimaginable. View in LinkedIn

AMINO ACID SKEW. "A similar pattern can be seen among amino acids on Earth. Wherever life is at work, the amino acids favored by biological organisms appear in much higher concentrations than they do in the absence of life." https://lnkd.in/d4b3fY4 View in LinkedIn

SIM'S MENAGERIE. "A population of several hundred creatures is created within a supercomputer, and each creature is tested for their ability to perform a given task, such the ability to swim in a simulated water environment. The successful survive, and their virtual genes containing coded instructions for their growth, are copied, combined, and mutated to make offspring for a new population. The new creatures are again tested, and some may be improvements on their parents. As this cycle of variation and selection continues, creatures with more and more successful behaviors can emerge." https://lnkd.in/dfYmYWR View in LinkedIn