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From: mwtilden@math.uwaterloo.ca (Mark W. Tilden)
Subject: Re: alife, factfree?
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In article <3pahpa$n24@crl11.crl.com>, Walter Raisanen <azi@crl.com> wrote:
>Name a fact  ...  that has come out of alife research.

From real world experiment, there is strong evidence that:


1 - Cooperation between diverse, selfish elements is not just possible,
it is in fact, inevitable.

2 - Structured, hierarchical survivalism is sufficient to eventually
converge elements that mimic capable social behavior, and even short-term 
learning abilities.

3 - There are more solutions in alife than are dreamt of in Euclidian
philosophy (and I submit they are easier to get to).


True, Alife research raises more questions than solutions, but this is
a feature, not a bug.  Alife is currently the domain of the thinker
because most thinkers have computers, not soldering irons.  This may
change but we need the thinkers first; they've got to define the
language, after all.

Is all.

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