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: I think you are reading things into the article. Please explain where the author (singular) makes all these inconsistent claims.
: I think you are reading things into the article. Please explain where the author (singular) makes all these inconsistent claims.
: [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 03:23, 17 December 2007 (EST)
: [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 03:23, 17 December 2007 (EST)
The authors first claim that genetic algorithm are suitable for solving multidimensional problems, and later complain that the dam example only works because they only consider a one-dimensional problem at a a time. But the fundamental problem is that they discuss a example of a genetic algorithm that works, and argue that this shows that the same principles do not work in nature. That is a fallacy. All they do is to show that the robot/dam example is not biological evolution. I figure that that is fairly obvious.
It appears that you define design as "''Design'' requires a ''designer''", and everything you want to say about it is then a tautology. Yes, in that case there is no design in nature. But this is just, because you define it that way. So, you eye is not designed. And don't tell me how wonderful your eye works, because your definition of "design" doesn't depend on how things work.
Anyway, what I still try to understand is you claim that the absence of "purpose" allows you to calculate "probabilities". I do know what random means, namely that you got a sample space, and a uniform distribution of that sample space. I suspect that it then depends on you definition of "purpose", since I cannot see how the absence of "purpose" ensure that the distribution on the sample space is uniform. Neither "purpose" in it functional nor teleological meaning do make sense. Rather than guess what you mean I would like to ask you to (1) define purpose, (2) give on example of a object without purpose (3) tell us what the sample space is, and why the absence of "purpose" implies that the distribution must be uniform. [[User:Order|Order]] 03:43, 18 December 2007 (EST)
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