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ALIFE
1999
13 years 4 months ago
The Simulated Evolution of Biochemical Guilds: Reconciling Gaia Theory and Natural Selection
Gaia theory, which states that organisms both affect and regulate their environment, poses an interesting problem to Neo-Darwinian evolutionary biologists and provides an exciting ...
Keith L. Downing, Peter Zvirinsky
ECAL
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Evolution and the Regulation of Environmental Variables
The idea that the biota can regulate the abiotic components of their environment to levels suitable for life has attracted criticism from neo-Darwinian theorists but is still a via...
Hywel T. P. Williams, Jason Noble
ECAL
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
The Quantitative Law of Effect is a Robust Emergent Property of an Evolutionary Algorithm for Reinforcement Learning
An evolutionary reinforcement-learning algorithm, the operation of which was not associated with an optimality condition, was instantiated in an artificial organism. The algorithm ...
J. J. McDowell, Zahra Ansari
CORR
2007
Springer
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13 years 5 months ago
The World as Evolving Information
Abstract. This philosophical paper discusses the benefits of describing the world as information, especially in the study of the evolution of life and cognition. Traditional studi...
Carlos Gershenson