On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 12:58 AM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 3/9/2015 3:19 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: > > Non-materialism is not the denial of matter, it just places it as an > epiphenomenon. Darwinism is a computer science theory. It works on DNA but > it also works on solutions to the travelling salesman problem. The problem > of weather matter is epiphenomenal or a brute fact is incidental to how DNA > encodes information, how phenotypes are expressed from it and so on. > > > I think your using an over simplified version of Darwinism. Darwinian > evolution explains the development of complex organization due to > competition for limited resources. > I agree, but I don't see the problem. "Resources" can mean almost anything that is finite. > Success in the competition consists entirely in producing more progency - > not in solving for a sortest path or some other computational problem. > That is true. Solving for shortest paths may help though, and ant colonies, for example, do evolve sophisticated algorithms for such purposes. My point is that the concept is so abstract that you can translate it to other environments and it works. You can create your own computational universe where solving the traveling salesman problem = food + sex and it works. Putting it another way: many mathematical models can create some "resource scarcity" where abstract Darwinism can apply. The question of weather or not a physical substrate is needed for the math does not affect the concept of Darwinism. It applies either way. Thus it's a matter-agnostic theory. > Darwinism would apply to computer viruses if there were computation > among the viruses for resources. > Tierra is still my favourite simulation exploring such an idea: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tierra_%28computer_simulation%29 Telmo. > > Brent > > -- > 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/d/optout. > -- 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/d/optout.
