I'm not convinced, primarily because I would have said the same thing about actual bacteria vs humans if I didn't have the counterexample.
One human generation time is 100,000 bacteria gen times -- and it only takes about 133 generations of bacteria to consume the the entire mass of the earth, if they could. Josh On Sunday 07 October 2007 10:57:41 am, Russell Wallace wrote: > On 10/7/07, J Storrs Hall, PhD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [rest of post and other recent ones agreed with] > > > It remains to be seen whether replicating Life patterns could evolve to become > > intelligent. > > No formal proof, but informally: definitely no. Our universe has all > sorts of special properties that make intelligence adaptive, that > Conway's Life doesn't have. Intelligence would be baggage in that > universe; best survivors will be bacterialike fast self-replicators > (maybe simpler than bacteria for all I know: it might turn out to be > optimal to ditch general assembler capability). > > ----- > This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email > To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: > http://v2.listbox.com/member/?&; > > ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=50927602-423edb
