[Drammach]

It took a while for Ofria to realize that they had tricked him.
They had evolved a way to tell when Ofria was testing them by looking at the numbers he fed them.
As soon as they recognized they were being tested, they stopped processing numbers.
“If it was a test environment, they said, 'Let's play dead,' ” says Ofria.
“There's this thing coming to kill them, and so they avoid it and go on with their lives.”

If they can recognize a threat and adapt a responce to it, one would think they can recognize an attempt to communicate and adapt a responce.. Like communication..
This could be an incredible advance in the Artificial Intelligence field..
Evolving AI rather than writing a program to "emulate" intelligence..

[marktwain]

More proof that, given an energy source, simple rules can lead to complex organization. This is ultimately the revolutionary thought that Darwin put forward, and what "creationists" seek to discredit, even though it says nothing about the origin of the conditions necessary for the energy flow.

[Junior]

Ping.

[ladyrustic]

very interesting. bump for later reading.

[PatrickHenry]

This is a link to Discover Magaazine. This article is their cover story. But without a subscription you can only see the first few paragraphs:
Testing Darwin: Digital organisms that breed thousands of times faster than common bacteria are beginning to shed light on some of the biggest unanswered questions of evolution.

[RaceBannon]

Yeah, right, Intelligent humans, using the best known devices designed by humans, in an orderly manner, create a test which included the use of inteligent designed machines using the latest technology...

to try and prove it all happened by chance.

[Urbane_Guerilla]

Wow. Evolutionists running programs to try to determine if what they believe might be possible. I guess if you don't have a clue how speciation takes place, then a computer program might help buck up your faith. Especially if you also believe that the human mind could possibly comprehend and eliminate every explanation for existence in a universe impossible to fathom.