Sasha ([info]alexanderwait) wrote,
@ 2004-09-12 10:20:00
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Live from ALife IX...
I am listening to an interesting talk about a computational model of DNA computing-- at the ALife IX conference-- this morning. My talk An Evolutionary Approach Generates Human Competitive Corewar programs seems to have gone OK. I was the first speaker at the Artificial Chemistry workshop. In a few minutes I'll be having lunch with my old adviser--Gilles Brassard-- who is flying to boston just to hear my tutorial this afternoon. If you are interested, please, sign up to my low traffic mailing list.

I also have a poster here. Have a look:



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Re: Dimensionality and universality
[info]alexanderwait
2004-12-27 03:59 pm UTC (link)
"While Kauffman talks of abstract spaces, not real-life euclidean, that's not too bad! Kauffman claims that life started as an "autocatalytic process", a certain web of chemical reactions in the primordial soup. Each cell then get to symbolise a certain molecule and the flow of nutrients could symbolise the relative amounts of molecules as one is spent to produce another. When it's all jumbled in a soup anyway, the elements exact position in the bowl is secondary."

There have been lots of attempts to build evolving, artificial worlds with "a certain web of chemical reactions." But these webs are very hard to analyze. It's much simpler, frankly, to use 3D euclidian space.

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