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From: timt@aisb.ed.ac.uk (Tim Taylor)
Subject: Re: Experiments with GA and neural nets
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Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 12:41:17 GMT
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In article <1996Jan11.000324.5442@threetek.dialix.oz.au>, telford@threetek.dialix.oz.au (Telford Tendys) writes:
|> > From: inmanh@cogs.susx.ac.uk (Inman Harvey)
|> > 
|> > Archmage (Archmage@mageton.demon.co.uk) wrote:
|> > : ...
|> > : What I am thinking of would be start with one cell, which has a chunk
|> > : of DNA (given to it by the GA program?). This DNA is obeyed, causing
|> > : the cell to grow, move, divide, react to surrounding cells etc.
|> > : The DNA will contain instructions for cells in some circumstances to
|> > : become neurons, and react to other neurons.
|> > 
|> > : Has anyone else thought of something like this?
|> > 
|> > It's a wide-open research area, and I don't think anyone has come
|> > close to cracking the problem yet -- do not underestimate the
|> > ramifications!
|> > 

Some people have published work on exactly this type of thing.

See, for example:

H Kitano 1995 "Cell differentiation and neurogenesis in evolutionary large
scale chaos" in Advances in Artifical Life: Third European Conference
on Artifical Life (eds. Moran, Moreno, Merelo and Chacon)

A Cangelosi, S Nolfi and D Parisi "Cell division and migration in a 
`genotype' for neural networks" Network: Computation in Neural
Systems, 5:497-515 1994.

I would be interested if anyone can come up with more references to
this type of work,

Tim.

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