RE: Detecting design or intent in nature
January 23, 2015 at 8:38 pm
(This post was last modified: January 23, 2015 at 8:50 pm by Angrboda.)
(January 23, 2015 at 7:46 pm)Heywood Wrote:(January 23, 2015 at 7:33 pm)rasetsu Wrote: What other evolutionary systems besides biological evolution are you seeing? Simulations of evolutionary systems aren't themselves evolutionary systems.
Simulations of biological evolution, such as the spider sim are real examples of evolution. What is evolving is variables in a computer. The simulation of biological evolution occurs when artwork and the motion/action thereof is directed by those actually evolved variables.
Because you say so, right? No, simulations are models of the real thing and require intelligence to interpret as models. Without the interpretation, they are just bits. I've studied computer science and you are wrong from top to bottom. Just as a painting of a rose isn't a rose, a simulation of an evolutionary system is not itself an evolutionary system. The code doesn't mutate. The variable registers don't replicate. The processor doesn't apply natural selection. It's an analogue of the real process.