Genetic Algorithm as a Result of Phenomenological Reduction of Natural Evolution

  • Authors:
  • Eva Schwardy

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • ECAL '01 Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Advances in Artificial Life
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

What is the result of the phenomenological reduction of natural evolution (if any)? The problem of the nature of evolution is traditionally neglected by philosophers, being considered for replied well by biologists in the intentions of reductive mechanistic definition of life as a form of proteins motion, or higher level of otherwise non-living matter organization, and not interesting for the computer scientists at all. Philosophy is simply afraid of anything as unpredictable and deliberate as living beings are, biology does not regard (or understand?) philosophical or cybernetic deductions and as for the computer science, it is important, THAT an optimizing algorithm works, not WHY it does, if so.