Proving Darwin {ReadingNotes}

Proving Darwin, Making biology mathematical by Gregory Chaitin - ISBN 0375423141 - Random House 2012

Motivation

Own question on algorithmic epistemology and on how creativity can be reduced.

Pre-reading model

List the main decisions that should be impacted by reading the book in order to estimate the Seedea:Content/Newconcepts#InformationActionRatio and facilitate rule design as suggested after finishing TheTinkerersAccomplice.

Draw a schema (using PmGraphViz or another solution) of the situation of the area in the studied domain before having read the book.

Reading

• 1 Introduction to Template
  • "interesting quote." (p1)
  • note
  • ...
• 2 Interesting thing
  • (p20)

See also

• Biology#metabiology
• Beliefs#B1
• Cosmology
• http://www.metabiology-wiki.net
• http://quiz.thefullwiki.org/ on the book itself, key topics and the authors
• reviews
  • by her
  • by him
• consider a set of rules
  • inspired by finishing TheTinkerersAccomplice and wondering how I could apply it

Overall remarks and questions

• turning mutation on its head
  • now an organism is not just an organism that changed over time because of mutations
    • but rather a series of mutations that was supported by an initial algorithm

Synthesis

So in the end, it was about X and was based on Y.

Critics

Point A, B and C are debatable because of e, f and j.

Vocabulary

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Post-reading model

Draw a schema (using PmGraphViz or another solution) of the situation of the area in the studied domain after having read the book. Link it to the pre-reading model and align the two to help easy comparison.

Categories

• UncategorizedBook
• Unfinished

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