http://alife.tribe.net/thread/81427506-f7e6-4425-82ff-65511f4ea07b?format=rss Tribe.net. Local Connections http://alife.tribe.net/thread/81427506-f7e6-4425-82ff-65511f4ea07b#e8142d6b-4bf8-43a4-a863-7603af09015d Generally, the same thing can happen in alife that happens in biological evolution: genomes evolve to contain enough redundancy to buffer a lot of mutations, but some mutations are simply lethal. Wed, 08 Sep 2004 05:17:10 GMT http://alife.tribe.net/thread/81427506-f7e6-4425-82ff-65511f4ea07b#e8142d6b-4bf8-43a4-a863-7603af09015d Mark 2004-09-08T05:17:10Z http://alife.tribe.net/thread/81427506-f7e6-4425-82ff-65511f4ea07b#7c50414c-2a82-4f32-a139-e583644ac5c6 Well perhaps you could give us your first thoughts on a marxist answer to this question (which I read about avoiding biases in genetic encoding schemes) I had a friend who wrote his PhD thesis on synthesizing Marx with Artificial Life : http://computing.unn.ac.uk/staff/CGJF1/thesis.html Sat, 14 Aug 2004 23:13:02 GMT http://alife.tribe.net/thread/81427506-f7e6-4425-82ff-65511f4ea07b#7c50414c-2a82-4f32-a139-e583644ac5c6 phil 2004-08-14T23:13:02Z http://alife.tribe.net/thread/81427506-f7e6-4425-82ff-65511f4ea07b#a7b12159-2a6c-45b4-95b8-8e9b31161518 I will have to read the texts to respond in an intelligent manner. This question could stand a well thought out marxist response. I do not capititalize marx because marx is a tool of analysis for me and I do not want to associate with the old CCCP, people's republic of china or cuba. Those experiments in centralized government have ended in oppressive regimes that no true marxist would in their right mind advocate. Marxism is not about centralized control but about freedom, flow, flux! :-) Sat, 14 Aug 2004 18:04:32 GMT http://alife.tribe.net/thread/81427506-f7e6-4425-82ff-65511f4ea07b#a7b12159-2a6c-45b4-95b8-8e9b31161518 Loures 2004-08-14T18:04:32Z http://alife.tribe.net/thread/81427506-f7e6-4425-82ff-65511f4ea07b#28cef69d-3c45-48c8-ad32-1ea611c79b56 Have a look here ... http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/users/inmanh/ Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:19:38 GMT http://alife.tribe.net/thread/81427506-f7e6-4425-82ff-65511f4ea07b#28cef69d-3c45-48c8-ad32-1ea611c79b56 phil 2004-08-13T21:19:38Z http://alife.tribe.net/thread/81427506-f7e6-4425-82ff-65511f4ea07b#54c070e6-acb2-431c-8572-c92c10c4ca2e Newbie here. I've been giving a-life cursory thoughts for a couple years now, but have never actually programmed anything. I'm reading Richard Dawkin's "The Selfish Gene", juxtaposed with Douglas Hoffstadter's "Metamagical Themas" and the spirit of the two put together got me to thinking about it more lately. Here's my question: With software a-life, how does one simulate random mutations/inversions/recombinations/etc. in the code for the a-life without putting too many restrictions on the possibilities in order to avoid errors. What I mean is that if the "genes" are just code, it seems you would have to regulate the nature of the mutations so as to avoid instructions that would mess up the flow of program execution, e.g. a mutation that in effect makes a JUMP instruction outside of the program causing all hell to break loose. Of course there are ways you could prevent this, but spelling out the "allowed" mutations seems contrary to the spirit of a-life. What kind of solutions are there for for this? Fri, 13 Aug 2004 16:47:17 GMT http://alife.tribe.net/thread/81427506-f7e6-4425-82ff-65511f4ea07b#54c070e6-acb2-431c-8572-c92c10c4ca2e $item.owner.firstName 2004-08-13T16:47:17Z