Joe G
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| Quote (Wesley R. Elsberry @ Sep. 02 2014,09:45) | | Rich Hughes pointed out commentary by Joe G. on genetic algorithms. It seems obvious that Joe G. is not aware that I answered his objection (#5) back in 1999; he's just shy of being fifteen years late to the party. |
The evaluation function = artificial selection, Wesley. And natural selection is a process of elimination not selection.
Natural selection is not a search heuristic and GAs are- GA s actively search for a solution to a problem, all the while guided towards that solution. Natural selection isn't like that at all.
All the information to find the solution is programmed into the GA. GAs would not find solutions if the correct evaluation function was not included in that GA. Therefor evaluation functions are one way of sneaking an intelligent agency into a GA as there isn't any difference between a evaluation function selecting and a human selecting based on the same criteria (except for the speed). The evaluation function is the artificial selection part of the GA. The only part of a GA that could be considered Darwinian or neo-Darwinian, is the mutation process. And even that is debatable.
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"Facts are Stupid"- Timothy Horton aka Occam's Afterbirth
"Genetic mutations aren't mistakes"-ID and Timothy Horton
Whales do not have tails. Water turns to ice via a molecular code- Acartia bogart, TARD
YEC is more coherent than materialism and it's bastard child, evolutionism
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