GaryGaulin
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| Quote | Over the weekend I was able to finish my latest creation. It is now published online at Planet Source Code:
www.planetsourcecode.com/vb/scripts/ShowCode.asp?txtCodeId=74628&lngWId=1
I also have a backup copy with compiled VB6 code to run on Windows. It does not install files that you later have to uninstall. Visual Basic is no longer as popular as it once was but it's an easy way to avoid the programming languages and environments that take over your computer with there being no knowing what's getting installed and compiled. I use simple math & graphics and all files stay in the IDLab5 folder. The code does not open an internet connection or calls any outside functions. Not all is within my control but I use a reasonably safe Google https (the "s" is for secure instead of older http that is now a problem) connection and all else I can to keep things problem free and simple as possible:
sites.google.com/site/intelligencedesignlab/home/IDLab5.zip
With that long project behind me I can now plan an Intelligence Design Lab #6. But I'm not yet sure what to model this time. Your ideas are welcomed.
At the moment I would most like to develop a cell model for what we have been discussing the past week. With so much still unknown it would require a number of best guesses to fill in the knowledge gaps, but then again so do all models and those that now exist normally leave cell migration and differentiation out completely.
Turning the insect looking critter to virtual stem-cells only requires changing settings in the Design form to flatten its eyes to become eye-spots (or other sensory spots aiding migration), make locomotion circles less like wings or wheels so that it rounds out to resemble a cell, and make the sensory antennae (which stem cells do have and must be there or is missing something important) more stalk-like.
The rest would be a matter of sprouting connections that come and go (or live in the gut and signal "hungry" or "full" by signaling through contents) as described in the information in this thread:
www.kurzweilai.net/forums/topic/neurons/page/2#post-731473
Going from the cellular to molecular level makes the critters complex molecules with scissors and other things flailing around for awhile then are dismantled then recycled by others, as described in this thread:
www.kurzweilai.net/forums/topic/discovery-biological-molecules-unexpectedly-evolve-fractally-over-time#post-731504
With so much new information to work with for brain (and other) cell behavior it seems best to not attempt a molecules on up model. It is though easily enough possible to begin to by using virtual actin filament elongation for spine formation. The first goal would be to develop a very simple zoo plankton with a couple of cells connected to a couple of others that grow propulsion and/or feeding spines. The next goal would be to develop a useful brain. Taking it one step at a time keeps the biology from becoming overwhelming by starting off trying to model all in a human brain on a PC.
Demonstrating an intelligent causation event only requires the virtual cells to on their own figure out how to develop into the even most rudimentary (as operationally defined by theory) intelligence. That's when it unavoidably gets way into "intelligent design" controversy but with almost all of the old ID theorists having given up and left the movement it's kinda been abandoned by its primary leadership. Those who wanted to see it at least go somewhere now have only this working for them. Better that than nothing at all. I gather information needed to go past current biological models from this (and occasionally other) forums but what happens is more controlled by what others find and where a topic goes from there. Assimilating "Intelligent Design" is something that happens from it, where it's best to not care what the few who remain in the movement are finding against Darwinian theory, to make an issue out of. For us that is a waste of time to bother with so don't let that distract you.
With that all said: you now have my thoughts for novel code that does not need a billion dollars in research money to develop. It just needs the right ideas from a lively forum like this one, I need to thank for helping put together over the years. All of the ID Labs were a result of what I learned online, so please teach on! We are all gaining an understanding of how living things work that few have, just by being here. Without that I would not have much for a model, on Planet Source Code right now. |
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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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