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viplex:
What is the trick of nature, that allows genomes (species) appear at such diverseity at the same enviroment? Why are simulations so dull?

Jez:
My guess would be time.

viplex:

--- Quote from: Jez ---My guess would be time.
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But in the sim, why do all species but one extinct? Time doesnt help. On the contrary..

EricL:
Nature is many many many orders of magnitude more complex than DB w.r.t. environment, genetic degrees of freedom, physics, etc.  and yes, nature has more time, not just in terms of linear time but in term of interactions per unit time at everything from the molecular to the organism level.  Nature is parallel.  DB is not.  

The short answer is that DB is so amazingly simplistic in comparsiom that it would be incredible if anything evolves at all (IMHO, we have yet to really see anything actually evolve beyond the most basic seiving response to enviromental constraints).  I could make a strong case that DB has yet to evolve anything.

viplex:

--- Quote from: EricL ---Nature is many many many orders of magnitude more complex than DB w.r.t. environment, genetic degrees of freedom, physics, etc.  and yes, nature has more time, not just in terms of linear time but in term of interactions per unit time at everything from the molecular to the organism level.  Nature is parallel.  DB is not.  

The short answer is that DB is so amazingly simplistic in comparsiom that it would be incredible if anything evolves at all (IMHO, we have yet to really see anything actually evolve beyond the most basic seiving response to enviromental constraints).  I could make a strong case that DB has yet to evolve anything.
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In that case, I suppose, processor speed is completely irrelevant regarding evolution efficiency. Yes, I have already observed something: if nothing interesting evolves in five minutes, you maight run it for five days with no interesting result at all.  
Maybe those quantum computers will help us.

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