Ran into Anikl Seth in the Inforamatics common room. Discussed ideas for projects for the course and for the summer.
He was unsure of the evolution idea – as am I.
He seemed to really like the other idea – my extension of Ezequiel D P ’s experiment with Ashby/plastic adapation by sensory inversion.
His main concern was [...]
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Lewontin & Gould – The Spandrels of San Marcos and the Panglossian Paradigm
Completed reading on 2 papers by Lewontin.
The most relevant idea for me coming out of these is the idea of the hitchhiker gene – inherited trait from individuals that have another (different) advantagous trait.
This ties in with my own ideas on how the [...]
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