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SIMPLE BREEDS COMPLEX. "It is also instructive to observe how little code is required to achieve seemingly complex strategies. The progenitor organism in Tierra used 80 instructions." https://lnkd.in/g5hUBjg View in LinkedIn

GROWING COMPLEXITY. "Given that the instructions and operations of the organisms are those of a simple von Neumann assembly language, the ecologies can be seen as a model of viral evolution, indicating that given sufficient time there is no barrier to viruses spontaneously developing sophisticated behaviour." https://lnkd.in/g5hUBjg View in LinkedIn

TIERRA. "The electronic ecologies that eventuated were astounding. The instruction sequences that serve as "organism" analogues spontaneously developed sophisticated behaviours. Among these were complex patterns in memory, flocking, parasitism and immunity, predator-prey relationships and sexual reproduction." https://lnkd.in/g5hUBjg View in LinkedIn

UNPONDERABLE. "Trying to imagine the marvels that pour forth once you've successfully tapped a computer as elaborate as the Net is as futile as trying to map the future of a society, or of a life – or of life itself." https://lnkd.in/edrARjk 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

STREAMLINING AND OUTSOURCING. Extreme genome reduction in symbiotic bacteria. https://lnkd.in/dx2k-vt View in LinkedIn