{"id":537,"date":"2003-10-01T17:53:50","date_gmt":"2003-10-02T00:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=537"},"modified":"2003-10-01T17:53:50","modified_gmt":"2003-10-02T00:53:50","slug":"evolving-evolving-evolving-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2003\/10\/01\/evolving-evolving-evolving-evolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Evolving Evolving &#8230; Evolving Evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite ideas is that the &#8220;theory of evolution&#8221; is a self-referentially robust.  By this I mean that the &#8220;theory of evolution&#8221; itself can undergo &#8220;evolution&#8221; and this strengths the theory of evolution (in the sense that theory is more consistent with experiment and history.)<br \/>\nConsider now genetic algorithms where you want to evolve a program to carry out a task.  Then we can also talk about evolving the way in which we implement the genetic algorithm which will evolve the program to carry out the task.  Well, once you&#8217;ve gone to one level of recursion, why not continue on down this path?  We can evolve the program which is evolving the genetic algorithm for the program which solves the problem.  It seems intuitively clearly (and there are some papers on this, I believe) that (Evo)^(Evo) &gt; Evo, i.e. evolving a program to evolve programs is better than simply evolving a program.  So it is interesting to consider (&#8230;((Evo)^(Evo))^&#8230;.^(Evo)).  What is the power of evolution recursed?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite ideas is that the &#8220;theory of evolution&#8221; is a self-referentially robust. By this I mean that the &#8220;theory of evolution&#8221; itself can undergo &#8220;evolution&#8221; and this strengths the theory of evolution (in the sense that theory is more consistent with experiment and history.) Consider now genetic algorithms where you want to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2003\/10\/01\/evolving-evolving-evolving-evolution\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Evolving Evolving &#8230; Evolving Evolution&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}