Well, two days here and I've already earned my first flame. Lucky me.
I feel like <----- this guy
I am having a nervius brake down here
Get back on your meds.
Yes Yes , AZPaul is right, next we will tackel the qustion of "Lets get rid of all mutation all Completely.
I'll assume English is not your primary language and you mistook my reference to "rates" as meaning "all mutations" which is clearly incorrect. "Rates" of mutation need to be in my control not the programmers.
In my simulations the "rate" of mutation of "values" is set much higher than the "rate" of whole new gene insertion. I don't need a programmer altering these values from deep within the bowels of the object code. Now I find that each individual Bot has it's own set of mutation "rates" that I will need to make appropriate for my study.
Asside to PY and you other DB Gurus:
Are these individual "rates" the probabilities of mutation within that individual's own genome or are they the rates applied to acheive a mutated genome for Junior?
Back to the game:
How about this idea AZPaul, I wana know how mutch you hate it:
When you save a mutated robot Dna file, you will save its own seporate mutation rates as well, so I dont have to do bloody screen shots , and save bitmap pictures of each bloody Dna rates
Say what? I see why you are considered uncomprehendable when you write. You're uncomprehendable.
Yea but what happens on level difference between bacteria and a person, I think you will find significant changes of how Dna mutates here.
You need to study more Gould, Kaiser and Dawkins. Genome mutation vectors are the same for [you]all[/you] life on this planet. And, barring environmental mutagens (which may exist in more or less abundance in a locality and include considerably more than your false god of radiation), the "rate" of such mutation of the genome between an E. coli cell and a cell in H. sapien is very similar. Do the research.
But what if switching to a new food is more Efficient in a situation? Now you will say lets ban all the different situations, so everything is boarding plain and simple like it is now.
That kind of over reaction is just foolish, isn't it. Are you really that big of a fool?
Quote form my post:
The basal levels of enzymes are determined in the DNA and are not affected by the long term presence or absence of the foodstuff within the individual nor will it affect the basal level of the enzyme as coded for in the DNA I pass on to Junior.
Your reaction:
If that was true , we would of died out as bacteria when all the Methane ran out in the atmosphere. But we did not , we evolved....
You really are an idiot. Read carfully, boy, I'm only gonna write this once.
The change in the environment
did not cause the mutation. Understood?
The mutation occurred hundreds, if not thousands of generations prior to the environment change. Since the mutation was not harmful it quiesced in the genome. And the mutation in the genome was totally random, totally unpreditable and totally "undirected" by
anything. It was a lucky, fortuitous event in reaction to absolutly
nothing!
It just so happened that this (now no longer mutation but a wide spread feature of many within the species) capability was
expressed when the environment changed (which itself was a slow process taking millions of years). Only those individuals of a species that already had the useful ability (no longer mutation) survived. Millions upon millions of other individuals and millions upon millions of entire species that did not have this now inbred ability (did not win that round of the random genome mutation game) died. As in dead, extinct. "We" are only here because "we" hit the genetic mutation lotto (and a whole hell of a lot more than once). Beneficial mutations
are not made to suit the environment. Only those genomes that suit the environment live. All others die. Got it?
I have enough fun doing this with Creationists. I certainly did not expect such academic immaturity here.
Now call your doctor, get your prescriptions refilled and go lie down somewhere.
-P
(no that's not a pouty, tongue stickie-outie emoticon. It's a "P" as in "Paul")
Post modified for spelling errors - 20 Mar 10:30 am Phoenix time. -P