midwifetoad
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Joined: Mar. 2008
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| Quote | I think Chomsky showed that human language is more than an HMM, but as you said, Behe doesn't think evolution can even do that much!
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I certainly am not ambitious enough to attempt evolving language. My goal was simply to test Behe's edge of evolution in a way that is a notch less deterministic than Dawkin's original Weasel.
I know, for example, that selecting for phenotypes is theoretically different from selecting genotypes, but I don't see how this matters much in a model. If the phenotype doesn't reflect the genotype in a way that is visible to the selecting agent, it doesn't really matter.
As for evolving phoneme level utterances, I think that's quite appropriate for a demo program. For one thing, I can make trade names. Bactine, for example. The distinguishing features of a trade name are pronounceability and novelty.
I don't know much about Chomsky except that he said a lot of things that sound like ID. I resist his pronouncements for that reason alone.
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Any version of ID consistent with all the evidence is indistinguishable from evolution.
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