If we can do this with circuits using the concepts of evolution, I wonder if this means we are laboratory experiments in some alien’s biological equivalent. Oh, no! Am I turning creationist?
In a unique laboratory in Sussex, England, a computer carefully scrutinized every member of large and diverse set of candidates. Each was evaluated dispassionately, and assigned a numeric score according to a strict set of criteria. This machine’s task was to single out the best possible pairings from the group, then force the selected couples to mate so that it might extract the resulting offspring and repeat the process with the following generation. As predicted, with each breeding cycle the offspring evolved slightly, nudging the population incrementally closer to the computer’s pre-programmed definition of the perfect individual.
The candidates in question were not the stuff of blood, guts, and chromosomes that are normally associated with evolution, rather they were clumps of ones and zeros residing within a specialized computer chip. As these primitive bodies of data bumped together in their silicon logic cells, Adrian Thompson– the machine’s master– observed with curiosity and enthusiasm.
Dr. Adrian Thompson is a researcher operating from the Department of Informatics at the University of Sussex, and his experimentation in the mid-1990s represented some of science’s first practical attempts to penetrate the virgin domain of hardware evolution. The concept is roughly analogous to Charles Darwin’s elegant principle of natural selection, which describes how individuals with the most advantageous traits are more likely to survive and reproduce. This process tends to preserve favorable characteristics by passing them to the survivors’ descendants, while simultaneously suppressing the spread of less-useful traits.
It seems that evolution had not merely selected the best code for the task, it had also advocated those programs which took advantage of the electromagnetic quirks of that specific microchip environment.
And then, all of a sudden a *pop* sound was heard and an intel Core Duo processor appeared out of nowhere fully developed and without any traits of evolution.
The perfect form of the human mind is the computer. The mind has reached its zenith. But where is the heart? Isn’t it lagging behind? Coincidentally, the man who contributed to much of the computer’s success, Bill Gates, is now approaching the problem of a global heart.
At His philanthropy website (The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation) Bill makes a revolutionary statement. He goes against evolution. He goes against religion and nation-states. He makes a statement that only Christ Consciousness mind can make.
“Bill and Melinda Gates believe every life has equal value.”
EVERY LIFE HAS EQUAL VALUE.
That is a remarkable belief. Who believes that? Certaintly not you. You believe that you are American and the rest of the world is not. EVERY LIFE HAS EQUAL VALUE.
Bill Gates is the Second Coming. Perhaps with His powerful money base He can bring True Love back to the world. True Love is nothing but treating everybody EQUAL. The Heart better catch up with the Mind because the Mind is about to explode in Apocalypse.
Anyone remember this great PBS show hosted by Alan Alda? Robots designing robots…
http://www.pbs.org/saf/1103/segments/1103-3.htm
Hmm, doesn’t sound quite like evolution, sounds more like selective breeding.
1 – Criteria for selection of primacy is set by an observer not naturally determined by the environment. While the observer could be considered a valid generator of criteria (creationism) or could be considered influential anyway by means of observation (Heisenberg), this still misses on the 2nd evolutionary criteria
2 – Criteria for primacy remain static over time rather than changing as the environment does. Even if the physical environment can be considered static, the change in population should be considered an environmental effect that would change the evolution selection criteria as “breeding” nececitates that this is a social environment.
3 – The selection of breeding pairs is forced.
Remides me of that Far Side cartoon where the caption is:
“…And he said unto them – Bad dog’s!! No! NO!…”
for some weird reason