Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #02814
To: rdraycott@CPL.co.uk
From: Sean Rigter rigter@cafe.net
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 10:01:03 -0700
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: common body
On the other hand, in life you won't see too many shrews with bat wings
(grin). In fact, the biological rule, crudely put, is "if it's a freak,
kill it!" That's why biological evolution is so very slow.
You see the amusing similarity of this with calls for "Beam purity".
It's all in the balancing of order and chaos. Hmm .. I meant, in Beam
lab experiments always mix equal parts of science, technology, art and
imagination, stir and then add a little salt to taste.
enjoy
wilf
rdraycott@CPL.co.uk wrote:
>
> someone wrote
> > The common body eliminates a lot of variables while permiting a
> >direct evaluation of different sets of behaviors. This would
> >greatly accelerate behavioral development and robot evolution.
> This is fundamentally flawed ...
--8<--
> since as in life the configuration of the body
> structure can prove to be a descisive evolutionary
> development (eg the Bat compared to say a shrew)
--8<--
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