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midwifetoad



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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 13 2009,15:00   

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I agree entirely. I raised the issue of whether optimization was a good model of biological evolution in my first NFL paper, back in 1996. Now I am completely convinced that it is not.


I think fitness is a useful concept, as long as you don't conflate it with correctness.

BTW, bath=path, for more fitness.

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Any version of ID consistent with all the evidence is indistinguishable from evolution.

  
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