RE: Detecting design or intent in nature
January 17, 2015 at 2:26 pm
(This post was last modified: January 17, 2015 at 2:41 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(January 17, 2015 at 2:16 pm)Heywood Wrote: How so? In a very recent post I stated what the key elements of evolution are. How does a river system have those key elements? Go through each element and show that it applies to river systems. If we are to actually have a discussion, you have to make some points and not just claim I am wrong or ignorant.A river system operates the same way that a procedural gen does, to achieve an equivalent effect, which you've decided is an example of an evolutionary system. Since I've already explained how a procedural gen works...multiple times...you can just go back and re-read the thread. I'm not going to jump through the hoops of your dishonesty -again-...just to satisfy you. You've been invited to make your argument in a way that would absolutely preclude this sort of asshatery many times..so far you don't seem to have been interested in doing so. You are owed nothing which you have not already been presented with, which is a fair deal greater than your claims or your behavior in asserting them deserved in the first place.
If I danced to your tune, you would simply re-assert ad naus, as you have done. You asked for a single example of an evolutionary system that does not require intellect. You have it. Procedural gens (and you're sticking with this one) do not require intellect. That is not an argument, that is not a claim...it is a statement of definition. The lack of such a requirement is the -defining characteristic- of a procedural generation. No more can be or need be said on the matter. It's up to you whether you want to show the slightest hint of integrity.
(January 17, 2015 at 2:10 pm)Heywood Wrote: What is happening in the spider sim satisfies my definition of evolution.
Quote:procedural generation is generating content algorithmically rather than manuallyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procedural_generation
:drops the mic and spits on the floor:
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