Closer to Walter Fontana's artificial chemistries? Other names to look at (off the top of my head) might include Stuart Kauffman and George Kampis.
On Sep 20, 2011, at 11:09 AM, Wesley Smith wrote: >> I would encourage those with an interest in this stuff to read Robert Rosen, >> and also perhaps Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela. While somewhat >> heterodox, they're the best I've found in the subject of theoretical biology >> so far. Any others? > > > I'm a fan of Tibor Ganti's approach to theoretical biology much more > than Maturana and Varela because it's based on actual quantitative > analysis of functioning chemical networks instead of philosophical > extrapolation that while interesting loses touch with reality. > > Also, I don't think the equivalent software approach is random > mutations of a buffer of data since the biologist in question is using > modular structures from the start. Instead, I think it's more like > random expression trees mutating. > > wes > > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > [email protected] > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
