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SELF-MODIFYING CODE. "In a programming language called Lisp, the source code to the program is data available to the program itself. It's pretty trivial in this environment to write self-modifying programs, and professional Lisp developers do this as a matter of course. Most of this self modification is bound within terms described by the programmer, but there's no reason a sufficiently sophisticated program couldn't have unbounded ability to self-modify." https://lnkd.in/evQuB2z View in LinkedIn

BIOLOGICAL MODEL. "There is great utility in algorithms modeled after biological processes. Google's Deep Dream is a neural net that was originally used to characterize pictures. Facebook uses such algorithms for face recognition. Lots of image and video processing use these algorithms. My late cousin used genetic algorithms in his Alzheimer's research. And, of course, many of these algorithms are used in video game AI." https://lnkd.in/evQuB2z View in LinkedIn

MACHINE LEARNING. "A whole industry, primarily around stock markets and statistical analysis, calls this Machine Learning, and they use algorithms which are designed to simulate analog signal processing, model neurons, or even simulate DNA and mutation over generations, to compute some result or another." https://lnkd.in/evQuB2z View in LinkedIn

REPRODUCTION IS THE GATE. "But programs do not self-replicate and there is no such thing as selection in a computer environment. You need all three (mutation, reproduction, selection) for evolution to occur." https://lnkd.in/evQuB2z View in LinkedIn

COULD-BE-WORSE-PERFECTION. "Nor ought we to marvel if all the contrivances in nature be not, as far as we can judge, absolutely perfect; and if some of them be abhorrent to our ideas of fitness...The wonder indeed is, on the theory of natural selection, that more cases of the want of absolute perfection have not been observed." (Darwin). https://lnkd.in/dWKSysJ View in LinkedIn

CONTEXTUAL PERFECTION. "The kind of perfection that Darwin sees in nature is a kind of temporary, fluctuating perfection that exists between different beings and between beings and their environment." https://lnkd.in/dWKSysJ View in LinkedIn

RELATIVE PERFECTION. "In searching for the gradations through which an organ in any species has been perfected, we ought to look exclusively to its lineal progenitors. But the state of the same organ in distinct classes may incidentally throw light on the steps by which it has been perfected." (Darwin). https://lnkd.in/d97MFVz View in LinkedIn

SELF-SELECTING ERRORS. "During the formation of a crystal, certain kinds of lattice imperfections usually replicate as a necessary part of the crystallization process. In so far as those imperfections that replicate are thus self-selecting, any crystallization process is likely to involve a rudimentary biological evolution. Under simple laboratory conditions, such evolution would be limited by the absence of any selection pressure for the elaboration of very complex imperfection patterns." https://lnkd.in/dDfWeDF View in LinkedIn

DARWIN'S RELATIVE PERFECTION. "Certainly he does not believe that any current species is perfect, but he frequently cites a kind of relativistic perfection. “How have all those exquisite adaptations of one part of the organisation to another part, and to the conditions of life, and of one distinct organic being to another being, been perfected?” https://lnkd.in/dWKSysJ View in LinkedIn

CRYSTAL DEFECTS are common, and the perfect crystal does not exist. https://lnkd.in/di6Db2a View in LinkedIn