Saturday, January 16, 2016

How Can Evolution Learn?

Why evolution may be intelligent, based on deep learning
January 11, 2016

Moth Orchid (credit: Imgur.com) 
Like neural networks, evolution appears to "learn" from previous experience, which may explain how natural selection can produce such apparently intelligent designs
A computer scientist and biologist propose to unify the theory of evolution with learning theories to explain the “amazing, apparently intelligent designs that evolution produces.” The scientists — University of Southampton School of Electronics and Computer Science professor Richard Watson* and Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest) professor of biology Eörs Szathmáry* — say they’ve found that it’s … more…

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