wildchild

The discussion I’m reading is interesting from a computational perspective. From the biology perspective there is a basic problem in the premise and this could be due to unexamined bias.
The ‘reductionist’ model for biology is no longer considered workable. Here is a website that includes a discussion of this with good links to other articles.

http://www.psrast.org/strohmnewgen.htm

The ‘reductionist’ model is no longer considered valuable in medicine either. Check this link:

http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&do... (read more)

Here are some mutation strategies that life uses that may be of value in programming towards AI-- (evolving software is part of the program- true?)

1)adaptive mutation (aka directed mutation)--
It has been observed that bacteria will mutate more quickly when under stress.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=11433357&dopt=AbstractPlus

http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/1160.html

http://www.iscid.org/boards/ubb-get_topic-f-1-t-000196.html

2)purposeful mutation (How long do you suppose that description will... (read more)