perfect...<br>thank you to make very precise my point....<br><br><b><i>spike <spike66@att.net></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <br><br>________________________________________<br>From: extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org<br>[mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of giovanni<br>santost<br><br>>... if anybody can show me how to calculate the probability of survival of<br>a black bear in the artic versus a white one, let me know....I will like to<br>learn to do similar calculations...<br><br><br>As would we all, Giovanni. If anyone knew how to accurately calculate this<br>kind of thing, we would be able to write reasonable simulations of<br>ecosystems, and then run them long enough to simulate evolution, a<br>scientific holy grail. If we figure out how to write a high fidelity sim of<br>evolution, we are within minutes of the singularity, because it
would be<br>able to sim the past, right through the present, arbitrarily far into the<br>future. <br><br>Simulating evolution in software must therefore be inherently difficult, as<br>in solving a system of ill conditioned nonlinear dynamic equations, or<br>simulating chaotic systems. Although it has its Lorenz attractors, life may<br>be analogous to Anosov diffeomorphism, chaotic everywhere, inherently ill<br>suited to being reduced to mathematical equations, thus holding us<br>maddeningly dependent upon verbiage in its description, suffering the<br>inescapable ambiguity of meaning associated with language.<br><br>Dammit. {8-[ <br><br>spike<br><br><br><br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>extropy-chat mailing list<br>extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org<br>http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat<br></blockquote><br><p> __________________________________________________<br>Do You Yahoo!?<br>Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has
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