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Q) How big is the DB morphospace?

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Numsgil:
But the sysvars are still basically numbers.  You could collapse *.robage *.eye5 div into a number.  I'm just wondering how you would build a DNA language that would let you do everything that you can do in Darwinbots without using any numbers, or at the very least hiding all the numbers from the DNA.

Jez:
I don't know, we use maths to model our universe and the bots. I guess you'd have to think of another way to model and interpret the bots universe.

Lets say colour for ID, repro only as set figure or equal division of self, no distance or movement value (only can see summat am moving). one eye or all eyes working as one.

Yes then, base it on yes/no values rather than scalability. Probably more limited unless you used a sort of infinite tree of yes/no values.  
(am I moving) [yes] (am I moving as fast as target) [no] (am I moving faster than target) [yes] (can I move faster than this) [yes] etc

Numsgil:
That's interesting.  I could see alot of DNA being built on boolean values.  I'm not sure it would be as versatile as the present DNA though.  Ultimately I think if you wanted to depart totally from numbers you'd need to use something like a neural net.  Various inputs matched up and modified to varirous outputs.

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