[Platt]
> I...wonder why life forms (genes) have an urge to survive. Start with the senario that 1/3 of the genes in an environment have the urge to survive, 1/3 don't care & 1/3 have the urge to self-destruct. Assuming all reproduce at the same rate, after 1 generation, the ratio of the respective genes will be 2:1:0, for generation +2, it will be 4:1:0,...for generation +n, it will be n > I...wonder why life forms (genes) have an urge to survive. Start with the senario that 1/3 of the genes in an environment have the urge to survive, 1/3 don't care & 1/3 have the urge to self-destruct. Assuming all reproduce at the same rate, after 1 generation, the ratio of the respective genes will be 2:1:0, for generation +2, it will be 4:1:0,...for generation +n, it will be n 2 :1:0. n 2 becomes a large number very quickly. Craig Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
