RE: What are your favorite examples of evolution in progress?
November 14, 2017 at 11:06 pm
(This post was last modified: November 14, 2017 at 11:09 pm by Bow Before Zeus.)
(November 14, 2017 at 8:40 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:(November 14, 2017 at 8:21 am)Bow Before Zeus Wrote: Why does it have to be just biological? If we create a species that has consciousness and self awareness, is it not equal or better than us? We then become the gods that create sentient beings. However, they may turn around and destroy us but hey, that's the cost of being a god.
Then that's not evolution, that's a new brand of creation. Evolution is "change through time." The mechanism is mutation.
The evolution part comes in when the machines start to replicate themselves in an ever increasingly better way. Many of the mechanisms of biological evolution can be present in their evolutionary process but there may also be other mechanisms involved. I would guess that the goal would be to survive therefore the machines will evolve to be far more intelligent and far stronger than humans thereby being in direct competition to our biological desire to reproduce and keep our particular gene in the gene pool.
(November 14, 2017 at 11:51 am)shadow Wrote:
(November 14, 2017 at 8:21 am)Bow Before Zeus Wrote: Why does it have to be just biological? If we create a species that has consciousness and self awareness, is it not equal or better than us? We then become the gods that create sentient beings. However, they may turn around and destroy us but hey, that's the cost of being a god.
I don't think that would be evolution, unless genetic mutation can occur because that is fundamentally what enables evolution. With a conscious sort of AI it would not be natural anymore, but deliberate.
Source: Terminator
There would still be the environmental influences that would shape the next generation of machines. So if you take two populations of machines they would evolve along different paths if they are in separate and non-connected environments. This is a Darwinian evolutionary mechanism. There could well be other influences that are non-Darwinian but not sure what they could be.
