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From: iic@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Ian Clarke)
Subject: Re: Reproduction
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In article <1996Apr30.220308.7004@news.iup.edu>,
	wolf@grove.iup.edu writes:
[snip]
>>second, in the case of tierra, the soup is seeded with hand-written
>>programs.  these programs are subject to then mutation/evolution, but
>>that doesn't remove the initial human will that wrote the first copy
>>program.  if tierra creatures appeared out of a soup of random
>>instructions, i could agree with Keith.  

Well in that case you do agree with Keith because as detailed in the 
book "Artificial Live" by Stephen Levy Tierra was capable and did
several runs with no seeding where organisms actually did spontaneously
'appear' from a random soup.

Ian
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