I remember reading about natural selection in middle school biology class and wondering how anyone could object to it- it was totally obvious that evolution would follow from those axioms
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(I was aware of evolution as something that was part of the culture war and that the outgroup was against evolution, but clearly didn’t have a full grasp of what it meant)
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But a bit ago I met up
@alexisgallagher who pointed out an important problem to me- if natural selection is truly the driver of evolution, why was the Artificial Life movement a failure?3 replies 0 retweets 6 likesShow this thread -
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Reality has a fitness function that's impossibly complicated to simulate. And there are other resource constraints - evolution has run in parallel in trillions of organisms for billions of years.
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Yes, that’s what I would say too!
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