Posted by Pete on August 25, 2003 at 05:16:24:
In Reply to: Re: The Solution posted by David on August 24, 2003 at 15:02:13:
Thanks for your thoughts David.
I realised after I posted that your idea of
species was similar to what I was talking about with 'base models'.
The number of ten poems was completely arbitrary.
Actually, in pondering my ideas, I was really just thinking of one poem and comparing it to the evolution of people - from bacteria to where we are now. And I was only hoping to produce one good poem from that initial one.
One poem - starting off quite basically and just changing it hundreds of different ways by just a small margin - trying to add a random word in a random location. Then deciding which of these changes are the best. Making the best the new species - from bacteria to tadpole so to speak.
Anyway, I can see I will have to try it myself if I want to do it this way. :-)
Is there more info somewhere on this site about how the model works? I would like to know more about how your speciation works. I can see how a poem would be not much changed if it is "breeding" with a poem which is almost identical to itself.
Do you agree with my suggestion that changes to a species occur only through mutation?
Just curious...
thanks
-peter.