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Sharks and grass
Botsareus:
I am thinking the same way about it as PY.
shvarz:
No it will not. Think about it. If you have a system where gene=enzyme, then if you are not using the enzyme for survival, the gene is going to mutate into something useless and you won't even notice it. Also, if you are spending energy to make enzymes that you don't need, then you are wasting energy - this will be selected against. Evolution would sort it all out.
Botsareus:
"No it will not" and then he starts explaining what PY just proposed. Its the govt. or a skeptic man.
Quote: "then if you are not using the enzyme for survival, the gene is going to mutate into something useless and you won't even notice it."
Exactly what happens in Py's system
Quote: "Also, if you are spending energy to make enzymes that you don't need, then you are wasting energy - this will be selected against. Evolution would sort it all out.
Exactly what happens in Py's system
shvarz:
Bots, can't you read - PY said that all bots will be omnivorous. I said NO, unused genes will be mutated and the bot will not be able to eat that stuff anymore. THEREFORE, it will NOT be omnivorous. Do I have to spell this out everytime?
Numsgil:
The problem (as Py sees it I imagine, and to a lesser degree myself) is that there is no incentive to be anything but an omnivore.
I agree with everything you've said schvarz, but we should add some kind of incentive to selectively use enzymes. Maybe the more you produce an enzyme the cheaper it is to produce.
That would be a rather passive method.
A more active method is to make enzymes cheaper to produce or work better the fewer types you have in your stomach.
Either would (I think) work.
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