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From: rdb@ktibv.uucp (The Graphical Gnome)
Subject: Re: A natural example of a-life (re mules/tables/reproduction)
Message-ID: <1994Sep1.140505.10560@ktibv.uucp>
Keywords: reproduction vs a-life mules tables
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Date: Thu, 1 Sep 1994 14:05:05 GMT
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hous0042@maroon.tc.umn.edu (Kevin C Houston) writes:

>To wit:
>Ideas reproduce.
>Ideas modify themselves (with or without reproducing)
>Ideas interact with the environment through human beings 
>Ideas are like programs running in a (wet) computer.

>Ideas are A-life. (primitive, but only because of the limitations of the
>                   processor)

>or anyway, that's what my Idea says.

>Kevin @ U of MN

If I read the book Selfish Gene and The Extended Phenotype right,
(both by R. Dawkins) both Genes and Memes (?) are related to a living
being. The Ideas here are Memes.
I do not have the books available here, so I can not citate from it.
They are interesting however (esp. for Software Engineers [AI])

The Graphical Gnome (rdb@ktibv.nl)

 
