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Zerobot evolution prize for conditional logic
EricL:
--- Quote from: Endy ---Evolution seems to work best if it has something to work on. The bots need to have increasingly harder challenges to test their mettle against.
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I will third that. But I will also point out that the any measure of evolution that uses terms such as 'progress' or 'better' begs the question as to what external frame of reference is being used to measure it. Humans tend to judge things in human terms and therefor tend to (incorrectly) ascribe some sort of built-in goal or relentless march towards ever increasing complexity to evolution. Humans often think that becoming more human-like is somehow 'better' or represents 'progress' and thus we use terms like 'primitive' to refer to less complex organisms around us. Of course, such perspectives are flawed. Evolution can produce complexity to be sure, but only if selection favors complexity. This of course, is the exact point both of you are making. But many miss the point that every other extant organism on this planet is the end product of the same exact evolutionary time span and represents a successful end product of evolution just as we do and the vast majority of them are single celled.
So, while I think it is fair to say things like "bots need increasingly complex challenges to evolve increasingly complex adaptations" I think it is incorrect to claim that copmplexity is somehow 'better' or represents some sort of 'progress' absent some well-defined frame of reference. In short, we would not long survive in a hot spring.
scood:
whers a zero bot? I cant find one in the bestiearry
whats a zero bot
abyaly:
--- Quote from: scood ---whers a zero bot? I cant find one in the bestiearry
whats a zero bot
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a zerobot is a bot with a bunch of zeros for its dna.
scood:
were can I get one?
Jez:
***Zerobot sim, what is it?***
http://www.darwinbots.com/Forum/index.php?...1958&hl=zerobot
You'll need to write your own, it's not difficult, the link describes a zerobot and zerobot sim.
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