GaryGaulin
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| Quote (Wesley R. Elsberry @ Feb. 26 2015,03:25) | Gary seems to have forgotten RBynum's further words that he quoted earlier, asserting that the full paragraph was what was relevant to the discussion:
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I am aware of genetic algorithms but where is the program equivalent of a single cell organism that can evolve to a more complex state? It should be possible to start with a simple form and evolve to the intelligent form. While life took billions of years computers should evolve in a few years. Course I could just be impatient, computers have only been around a few decades. What seems like a long time is incredibly fast in evolutionary terms.
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RBynum, the person asking for the information, seems to disagree with Gary's assessment of my contribution to the discussion.
Gary thinks that the results of experiments are "misleading wishful thinking", a complete inversion of the situation where I present evidence and Gary insists that "Let's pretend!" tells us something useful.
The rest seems to be Gary foaming at the mouth. Perhaps he is more than a little exercised. It's a wonder he has let me have the last word in that thread at the Kurzweil forums. |
You did not score any points by advertising an Evolutionary Algorithm like Avida in a forum where experienced modelers for the most part are already aware of it and are bored by such things. That's why the primary topic of discussion are new innovations that go way beyond that into superhuman intelligence systems and uploading the contents and consciousness of a living brain into an immortal machine.
I would have been embarrassed to recommend such a tripe algorithm, in a forum like that. But if that suits thine emperor then I'm fine just letting you on your own parade that which only those worthy of their noble positions are able to see.
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The theory of intelligent design holds that certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection.
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