I also built alife simulators that had emergent natural selection properties. I definitely observed there was some minimal but present tuning of the environment to get natural selection to emerge.
I also came to the conclusion you seem to have… that the environment and its complexity and attributes have as much to do with the creatures that emerge as the creatures’ inherent possibilities themselves.
In the decades since writing those (primitive Martin Gardener-inspired) simulations, I have observed from afar that there is a strain of academic evolutionary biology that has come to similar conclusions… that the environment and its attributes and complexity is a critical (coequal?) part of the evolutionary process.
> that the environment and its complexity and attributes have as much to do with the creatures that emerge as the creatures’ inherent possibilities themselves.
An interesting conclusion, and one that I am sure has implications for artificially intelligent systems.-
I also came to the conclusion you seem to have… that the environment and its complexity and attributes have as much to do with the creatures that emerge as the creatures’ inherent possibilities themselves.
In the decades since writing those (primitive Martin Gardener-inspired) simulations, I have observed from afar that there is a strain of academic evolutionary biology that has come to similar conclusions… that the environment and its attributes and complexity is a critical (coequal?) part of the evolutionary process.