just some random thoughts ...
a stream of consciousness thing ...
I thank you for your indulgence in advance.
humor me, eh?
One way to think of the dynamic cost multiplier is as a measure of organisim efficiency in a sim.
yes.
and in order to do any of this 'looking' ...
this examination via empirical results ...
one must first be able to minimize the effects of multiple variables ...
of 'outside' influences ...
to ensure that what one is seeing is indeed the effect of
whatever variable one is 'studying' and/or manipulating.
I think we are closing in on being able to do that.
this is the 'lab' part of the DB experiment, eh?
being able to first create/develop a 'stable' environment
that is at equilibrium ...
then introducing a change ...
say of an additional organism or bot ...
then observing how the efficiency is altered over time ...
where the new equilibrium settles ...
allows us a window into the dynamics involved in the
system as a whole.
of course this is for our own benefit ...
our own gathering of knowledge ...
which hopefully will then enable us to better set up darwinbots
as a viable environment ... for being a real evolution sim ...
which we can then 'let go of' to do it's own thing ...
to not control ... hands off ...
to work at evolving species and/or an 'organisim' on it's own ...
'within' the initial paramerters we must 'impose' at the start ...
so that 'we' can still make sense of the results ...
so that doesn't appear to be chaos to 'us' ...
so we can recognize the 'order' that is there.
so this ability to experiment and tweak/fine tune ...
is simply preparation ...
building/creating a viable system/program ...
which can respond without either stagnating and dying out ...
or cascading out of control.
it is like Heisenberg said, eh? ...
we can't help but influence the results in some way.
let the experimenting continue.