“Avida operates by creating a virtual world in which programs compete for CPU time and memory access, just like organisms competing for resources in the real world.”
Yes, “JUST LIKE” organisms competing for resources. Lol. Just like it.
“Smith, for example, wonders whether our understanding of the chemistry of complex systems needs to take on a cyborg-like quality by integrating a lot more closely with computational research.”
Cyborg-like quality? This is meaningless nonsense.
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Dawkins pitched a similar program years ago, called Blind Watchmaker. It could make swastikas and other symbols, he claimed, which somehow proved something. The download never worked.
Same ol snake oil.
Biology has really gone downhill now that it’s being used as a source for the new liberal orthodoxy as opposed to being a science.
I thought the Internet came from 10000 Al Gores in a room with typewriters.