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Darwinbots enzyme system
Ulciscor:
This may be an idiotic question but why would you want to blur the line between veggies and animals?
PurpleYouko:
Because without the line being blurred there is no way for a plant to evolve into an animal or vice versa.
All the earliest life on this planet was neither. What we see today as plant or animal are the pinacle of evolutionary progress to find exploitable niches.
It should be possible to create a primitive life form that lives in an anaerobic simulation and gradually creates oxygen from the environment around it. Later, other lifeforms should be able to adapt to use that oxygen in metabolic processes. others should evolve to feed on each other while some develop the ability to take energy from light and become plants.
Just to have a button that magically gives a robot energy from the environment is simply not realistic. Up until now it has been a necessary evil but we now have a system worked out that will make it superfluous. The robots need realistic and believable mechanisms by which to derive energy.
Even today we have some hybrid animal/plant species. Take the venus fly trap, Sundew or Pitcher plant
All of these species require protein from insects in order to suplement their photosynthesis.
Presently we cannot model this kind of behaviour in DB. But I for one would like to.
Ulciscor:
Organisms which use different enzymes etc would be multi-cellular wouldn't they?
Botsareus:
I would like to add that you should try to evolve robots along side with plants in the current system. As a long run you will see that in the current system this kind of evolution will be inpossible because there is no balance between vegs. and animals. What will happen is the vegs will addapt to be simply as good as the animals and kill them off.
The other problem is the problem with the "FirstBot" Right now to create a firstbot I have to use two genes witch include a feeding reproduction and movment code.
Solution:
In the future system all I will need is a reproduction code and some enzymes. The robot will even choose what it wants to do first tie feed or shoot, move or turn etc.
(My goal with FirstBot is to have somthing as premative as possible to evolve into somthing as advanced as possible)
P.S.
Excuse horable spelling if any.
Multiselluer?
No , but who knows.
PurpleYouko:
--- Quote ---Organisms which use different enzymes etc would be multi-cellular wouldn't they?
--- End quote ---
Not any more so than now. Enzymes are present in single celled creatures as well. Possibly greater efficiency with MBs though.
Making decent MBs is also something we are trying to make easier in the new release. Balance is a big deal. We can't just arbitrarily make something only available as MB.
--- Quote ---Solution:
In the future system all I will need is a reproduction code and some enzymes. The robot will even choose what it wants to do first tie feed or shoot, move or turn etc.
--- End quote ---
Please note that enzymes are NOT directly controlled by the genes. Or at least do not need to be.
The enzymes for a particular robot will be determined at that robot's birth and will be subject to mutation. No active control necessary! If we allow gene control then any robot can make all enzymes and that would really suck.
At least that is the point I was arguing for all along and where I thought we had ended up. Please correct me if I am wrong here. It was a while ago.
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