RE: Detecting design or intent in nature
February 3, 2015 at 1:54 pm
(This post was last modified: February 3, 2015 at 2:11 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
It's a procedural generation Ras. Explicitly chosen to remove intellect as a requirement so as to model the researchers view of how evolution occurs. Starting with any seed, provided by any means, it does work which mimics the effect of unguided biological evolution (or at least the researchers position on the mater) and produces results recognizable -as such-...provided you share the researchers views of evolutionary processes. You don't have to keep feeding it inputs or making selections. Procedure stands in for/as input.
It's all the rage in video games at present, particularly for handling massive scenery, big worlds...or for providing variation, which would otherwise be too time consuming or costly, (both in cash and machine resources). These worlds are also, in Heywoods estimation, evidence that evolution requires intellect, somehow.
(your objections by reference to evolutionary biology, btw, not acceptable, as you didn't observe the implementation of that evolutionary system so you can't say that it doesn't require intellect or that any part of it is evidence that such systems don;t require intellect- again, so sayeth Heywood)
It's all the rage in video games at present, particularly for handling massive scenery, big worlds...or for providing variation, which would otherwise be too time consuming or costly, (both in cash and machine resources). These worlds are also, in Heywoods estimation, evidence that evolution requires intellect, somehow.
(your objections by reference to evolutionary biology, btw, not acceptable, as you didn't observe the implementation of that evolutionary system so you can't say that it doesn't require intellect or that any part of it is evidence that such systems don;t require intellect- again, so sayeth Heywood)
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