Strong evidence that a search algorithm can find high functionality in an astronomically large search space

[Mercer (John Mercer)]

@colewd

@Witchdoc

Also, having a mind as a mechanistic explanation is very useful for science as it provides a strong counter argument to help with rigor for evaluating a hypothesis. I think exploring the possibility of a separate ancestry hypothesis has already been refuted by observable genetic data, and as such would be a total waste of time.

Hi WD

I think your objections are well articulated but suffer from not looking at the problem realistically.

Hi Bill,

I think you missed @Witchdoc’s satire of your rhetoric completely.

Do you not remember what you have written?

[Dan_Eastwood]

Moderator at work. You may want to hold comments for a while.

[Faizal_Ali]

@colewd

Are you claiming the LUCA hypothesis is compatible with multiple origins?

Well, it is. But that was not what I was referring to.

So I’ll take that as a “Yes.”

[Dan_Eastwood]

The topic is split, but less-than-gracefully. I had to remove some comments that were mostly really good.

/fnord