Convergent Animal Algorithms Challenge Darwinism

Episode 1531 November 18, 2021 00:28:41
Convergent Animal Algorithms Challenge Darwinism
Intelligent Design the Future
Convergent Animal Algorithms Challenge Darwinism

Nov 18 2021 | 00:28:41

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Show Notes

Today’s ID the Future again spotlights the new book Animal Algorithms: Evolution and the Mysterious Origin of Ingenious Instincts. Host and Baylor University computer engineering professor Robert J. Marks talks with Animal Algorithms author Eric Cassell about the sophisticated algorithms that appear to be embedded in the brains of colony insects, granting them impressive instinctive abilities. Could these complex programmed behaviors have evolved through a blind Darwinian process? Cassell and Marks discuss the challenges to that idea, beginning with the fact that in our ordinary experience, when random changes are made to a computer algorithm, it inevitably degrades function rather than enhancing it. Digging deeper, they discuss the No Free Lunch theorems of William Macready and David Wolpert, and the problem Read More ›

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