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From: jabowery@netcom.com (Jim Bowery)
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brown@altair.krl.caltech.edu (C. Titus Brown) writes:
> I think the general determination was not to worry about what individuals
> do.  The connections to a given "puddle" are likely to be few enough that
> the probability of something truly creative *and* adapted to do harm is
> negligible.

Bioisolation is a prerequisite for anything but defection to evolve
in the prisoner's dilemma.

If genetic communication is too rapid -- not enough isolation -- 
diversity suffers and as a result evolution suffers.

Some concept of a 2-d "terrain" needs to be incorporated such that
"puddles" with small cartesian distances are exponentially more 
likely to exchange genetic information than more remote.  The
parameter on this exponential decay will turn out to be as important as 
the mutation rate.
-- 
The promotion of politics exterminates apolitical genes in the population.
  The promotion of frontiers gives apolitical genes a route to survival.
                 Change the tools and you change the rules.
