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NEW FRONTIER. “Think of all the trouble that computer hackers cause. Now imagine what DNA hackers could do.” https://lnkd.in/dVFmp9V View in LinkedIn

SO ENDS this two weekend dive into double fertilization in flowering plants. One explanation for its complexity is that we are looking at the survivors of a biological train wreck, the progeny of almost incompatible hybridizations that carry genetic and metabolic baggage that could not be jettisoned in time, and the resulting offspring is still capable of survival. View in LinkedIn

ZARATHUSTRA. "Richard Dawkins has written several computer programs which function, he says, like evolution. Dawkins also uses the computer to generate artificial creatures he calls "Biomorphs." The evolution they undergo is analogous to biological evolution, he says." http://www.panspermia.org/computrs.htm View in LinkedIn

THIN LINE. “What's the difference between the process of evolution in a computer and the process of evolution outside the computer? The entities that are being evolved are made of different stuff, but the process is identical.” https://lnkd.in/dshHtpP View in LinkedIn

TWO WORLDS. “Macroscopic, spatio-temporal, cooperative structures spontaneously emerge in these self- programming system. They emerge in a similar way as macroscopic dissipative structures do in physico-chemical systems."(1991). https://lnkd.in/dWGaP8C View in LinkedIn

SYNTHETIC LIFE. ""Every computer-based self-replicating program system...provides a new instance of evolution." https://lnkd.in/dJG7PFu Macroscopic, spatio-temporal, cooperative structures spontaneously emerge in these self- programming system. They emerge in a similar way as macroscopic dissipative structures do in physico-chemical systems.(1991). https://lnkd.in/dWGaP8C View in LinkedIn

IN SILICO EVOLUTION. “We propose a novel class of formal dynamical systems, which are referred to as self-programming or constructive. We believe that these systems form natural models for functional self-organization in prebiotic and proto-biological systems. We shall use the computer as a ''test-tube'' to follow the dynamics of these systems and in particular investigate their emergent functional properties." (1991). https://lnkd.in/dWGaP8C View in LinkedIn

KARL SIMS (more later): "Uses a parallel supercomputer to evolve not only textures for his graphic creations, but entire images, all generated by natural selection." https://lnkd.in/dJpC_P3 View in LinkedIn

NATURAL SELECTION ALGORITHM. "Almost twenty years ago...John Holland minted "the genetic algorithm", a means by which the rules of natural reproduction, particularly natural selection, could be used to literally evolve computer programs. The results can be viewed as organisms." https://lnkd.in/dJpC_P3 View in LinkedIn