From: Prof. Gomes (profgomes@geocities.com)
Date: Sun Jan 07 1996 - 18:37:24 MST
I remeber that Darwin did not explicitly consider the selftransformations
that inteligent individuals (not whole species) are able to perform... This
way, even (mainly) an immortal individual ( human... or better,
transhuman...!) may supply
selfmodificatons in such a way much quicker than permit the simple
Darwinian evolution parameters... I repeat >> artificial is a subset of the
natural, not a disjoint set...
Gomes.
At 19:18 07/01/98 +0300, you wrote:
>On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Technotranscendence wrote:
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>Darwinian evolution optimizes a lot of system's degrees of freedom, among
>other things (localized) mutation rates and generation durations. (It also
>is a fount of contraintuitive nonlinearities, but that's another story).
>The trivial argument is that immortal individuals are almost instantly
>outperformed, especially in a Red Queen environment (you have to run like
>mad just to stay in the same place, and twice as fast if you want to get
>to somewhere else).
>
>It should be in a FAQ somewhere.
>
>ciao,
>'gene
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