(December 4, 2015 at 11:50 pm)ApeNotKillApe Wrote: That deals with the development of ideas on a Darwinian level? As in, something that observes concepts/ideologies more or less like an organism, and distinguishes what factors into how they're selected, how they've changed and adapted?
Not sure this is what you're looking for;
there is software that can design electronic circuits from predefined components of known properties to do a specified (fairly complex) function.
Essentially, the software randomly assembles simple circuits, and keeps modifying the components values and how they are connected while evaluating the circuits function as compared to what it is desired that it do.
Since the software has extremely precise data on the components, including weird effects like lead inductance, lead capacitance, changes in a parts properties with increased current flow, the software sometimes uses components in unexpected ways a human designer would never consider. I think an example of this I recall was a transistor only being connected electrically on one lead, and the other 2 wires were used as antennas, and the transistor itself was the matching transformer/load for the signal. It was really clever, but clever isn't the right word, it was random selection of desirable traits.
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