Shooting is artificial if we think of it as bots firing projectiles at other bots but makes some sense perhaps if we instead imagine them as streams of enzyme-like substances being ejected.
Good point, I have never thought about it that way.
also agree that adding a new defense will be artificial; instead the current features should be adapted to suit. Slime currently resists the entry of viruses; could it maybe be expanded to prevent/deter bots from eating their target?
Precise, the breaking of older bots, can be the result, but then again, DB is evolving to, and can not continue to keep its junk code forever, now we need a new generation of bots!
You have to introduce rules at some point. As [PY] said before you can't just have a complex system emerge from a totally lawless (as in without rules) system. I agree that the fewer laws you impose the more interesting and unpredictable the resulting system can be but you still need rules to start with.
No that is logic, something can not emerge from nothing! No genesis!, and I did not say I were against rules, just that we have to many rules of a sort. But chaos theory say that complex system's emerge from simple rules. Like Conway's Game of Life, 3 very simple rules, have giving rise to AND-GATES, NOT- and OR-gates, from rules, which have nothing to do with LOGIC! Even a sort of replicating patterns, which can make a sort of reproducing (I mean multiply, become more,
1->2->4->8 etc)
Look that is emergent behavior that screams to heaven! Chaos theory is roughly about study complex systems and find the underlying [span style=\'font-size:21pt;line-height:100%\'](simple)[/span] rules.