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To: Southack
Genetic programming is an idea borrowed from life. But in real life, context is extremely important for DNA sequence expression. Don't make the mistake of imposing the limitations of the model on real life.
586 posted on 04/05/2002 3:00:54 PM PST by Nebullis
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To: Nebullis
"Genetic programming is an idea borrowed from life. But in real life, context is extremely important for DNA sequence expression. Don't make the mistake of imposing the limitations of the model on real life."

On the contrary, genetic programming is very real.

With genetic programming, science can create useful organs for humans by growing them in pigs. This is performed via gene-splicing, which copies genetic code for an entire subroutine/gene into the host.

Likewise, human programmers commonly copy complete subroutines from one software program into others.

Context can affect the output results, but it does not invalidate the original data. Please review the video-game analogy above if you are still unclear on the distinction between context and code.

587 posted on 04/05/2002 3:17:57 PM PST by Southack
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