Digital Darwinism radio doc - (Self-replicating code + random mutation = evolution)

[ldmelsa]

http://www.soundprint.org/radio/display_show/ID/290/name/Digital+Darwinism

A new breed of creatures is populating our planet. Like other Earthly life forms, they evolve from a few simple cells into higher beings capable of competition, cooperation, and sexual relations. Unlike other critters, their habitat is a computer's memory and they are, in fact, just computer programs. In "Digital Darwinism," producers John Keefe and Samantha Beres explore this new world of self-evolving computer organisms. They also show how a bunch of independent computer programs, or even little robots, can develop community behavior. Like ants at a picnic, each program or robot just fends for itself: moving around, looking for food, and collecting food. But when enough of them get together, computer societies akin to ant colonies "emerge" with little or no human intervention.

 

[ldmelsa]

Damn! Nobody else think this cool.

 

[Balstrome]

way back when, I remeber copy line by line a basic program that did something similar, I think it was named Life and it had rules of how long each creature could live next to another and other neat stuff.

 

[ldmelsa]

way back when, I remeber copy line by line a basic program that did something similar, I think it was named Life and it had rules of how long each creature could live next to another and other neat stuff.

cool