A85: Re: Assembly-85 Digest V1 #406

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Subject: A85: Re: Assembly-85 Digest V1 #406
From: STL137@aol.com
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 20:22:27 EDT
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<<I had a look at Tierra and it doesn't even come close to the complexity
exhibited in Creatures.  Creatures uses Nueral Networks and has a
graphical interface.  They learn, eat sleep, get sick, die and reproduce.
It is so close to the real thing that the programmers insist you treat
Norns with respect because they are alive.>>
No, no, NO! You simply do not get it. "Creatures" is flashy programming that
isn't true artificial life. Tierra is true, die hard AL, as it builds its
"organisms" from chunks of Tierran *assembler* code. Evolution is not
programmed into Tierra. Parasitism is not programmed into Tierra. Yet they
develop on their own.

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