So anyway, I'm going to talk more about Weelanders. You may be tired of hearing about my little artificial life forms by now but then, that's your problem. Today I want to talk more about the (mistaken) belief that much of life is either too perfectly suited to its environment or too complicated to have evolved through random mutation and natural selection. To illustrate this, I will use Weelander genome i2132 (who I have nicknamed "Bob"), who is one interesting fellow...   more »

Since giving Weelanders the ability to have sex a number of interesting things have happened...   more »

So over the weekend the Weelanders finally acquired the means to share genetic matter, and sharing genetic matter seems to be a more reliable way to create a healthy population...   more »

WARNING: this article is long!

Okay, more on Weelanders, my latest point of interest, including some output for you to peruse. Here's a run I started with a slightly modified Basic-c genome (called Basic-c2). I made a change based on something the Weelanders taught me about my food search algorithm...   more »

Awhile back I mentioned I was using Visual Studio, .NET, and C# to conduct an experiment I have always wanted to run, as a vehicle for learning about .NET. I also refused at the time to reveal the nature of it because I was afraid I wouldn't follow through. Well I followed through, and it is beginning to bear fruit, and is, in my opinion freaking cool...   more »