Re: Simulation argument in the NY Times

From: Peter de Blanc (peter@spaceandgames.com)
Date: Tue Aug 21 2007 - 16:14:09 MDT


On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 17:44 -0700, Matt Mahoney wrote:
> Sorry, I did not express myself correctly. I mean that a population of
> organisms is intelligent, and evolution is the algorithm. My argument is that
> the intelligence of the population is proportional to its algorithmic
> complexity, the length of the shortest program that could output all of the
> DNA of the population.

So you're saying that noise is smarter than anything?



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