On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 11:52:09AM +0200, Telmo Menezes wrote: > On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 1:56 AM, Russell Standish <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Its more of an entropy pump. Chris Adami has written some stuff on > > that, using a related system called Avida. > > Ok, I'm familiar with Tierra and Avida but I don't recall coming > across those ideas. If you find a reference, I'd be interested. >
I mostly heard of it through workshops and seminars he (or his coauthors) gave at various ALife conferences around the turn of the millennium. He talks a bit about it in his book Artificial Life. But the definitive article would probably have to be http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0005074 (Evolution of Biological Complexity). -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
