A Biological Singularity

From: Gerhard Kessell-Haak (gerhard_kessell-haak@mail.tait.co.nz)
Date: Tue Sep 22 1998 - 16:10:31 MDT


>>mother nature is not efficient by any stretch of the imagination.
>
>Agreed, intelligent design can beat it all to hell.

Sorry, but here I may have to disagree. FPGA circuits "designed" using
genetic algorithms have been shown to be far more compact in design
than anything that may be designed in an analytical, modular manner.

Combining intelligent design with goal-driven evolutionary design is the
way to go.



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