Posted on 09/03/2002 11:50:02 AM PDT by VadeRetro
Exclusive from New Scientist
A self-organising electronic circuit has stunned engineers by turning itself into a radio receiver.
What should have been an oscillator became a radio
This accidental reinvention of the radio followed an experiment to see if an automated design process, that uses an evolutionary computer program, could be used to "breed" an electronic circuit called an oscillator. An oscillator produces a repetitive electronic signal, usually in the form of a sine wave.
Paul Layzell and Jon Bird at the University of Sussex in Brighton applied the program to a simple arrangement of transistors and found that an oscillating output did indeed evolve.
But when they looked more closely they found that, despite producing an oscillating signal, the circuit itself was not actually an oscillator. Instead, it was behaving more like a radio receiver, picking up a signal from a nearby computer and delivering it as an output.
In essence, the evolving circuit had cheated, relaying oscillations generated elsewhere, rather than generating its own.
Gene mixing
Layzell and Bird were using the software to control the connections between 10 transistors plugged into a circuit board that was fitted with programmable switches. The switches made it possible to connect the transistors differently.
Treating each switch as analogous to a gene allowed new circuits to evolve. Those that oscillated best were allowed to survive to a next generation. These "fittest" candidates were then mated by mixing their genes together, or mutated by making random changes to them.
After several thousand generations you end up with a clear winner, says Layzell. But precisely why the winner was a radio still mystifies them.
To pick up a radio signal you need other elements such as an antenna. After exhaustive testing they found that a long track in the circuit board had functioned as the antenna. But how the circuit "figured out" that this would work is not known.
"There's probably one sudden key mutation that enabled radio frequencies to be picked up," says Bird.
Duncan Graham-Rowe
Picture some ten-year-old American kid growing up on a steady diet of public schools and TV, who had never heard of Chuck Darwin or evolutionism. Picture some guy representing Howard Hughs walking up to the kid and saying:
Kid, for a million bucks, I need you to devise an atheistic ideological doctrine to explain the present biosphere without recourse to anything resembling a creative act, engineering, or re-engineering or anything like that at all, and it has to be the stupidest ideological doctrine which has ever been devised. In fact, it has to be stupid enough for people to believe that the clown in the picture here invented it, and it has to be based on stuff which you watch on television on a regular basis.
Here's what I suspect the kid might come up with. We're talking about a new reality TV series which involves five guys with Sten guns, AKs, and M16s, a bunch of criminals from death row who have volunteered for the program, and a bunch of chimpanzees, and the chimpanzees have spent the last three months watching ER, and all other available doctor and medical shows. They line the criminals up against the wall, and the guys with the automatic rifles mow em down. Notice I specified relatively light calibre rifles and not FALs or M14s or anything which guarantees outright kills. The idea is that the chimpanzees now will try to use their newly acquired medical skills to repair the shot-up criminals.
The doctrine says that the vast majority of these shot-up and "repaired" criminals will die off, most of them within an hour or two, but due to the law of averages, a very few will get put together beter than they were before, and the progeny of these few will become EUBERMENSCHEN, and breed together to form ever improved new races of men.
How's that grab you?
industrial progress---moral/social character-values...
maturation---physical/mental development?
Evolution(unstable/whacked) is the opposite of science(stable)--SANITY!
your consciousness morphs/flickers...reality if your not hallucinating is constant!
If it feels good, DO IT!
Wouldn't you rather be a radio than an occiliscope signal generator?
variation + natural selecton ---> new species
‘I am the truth. . ..’(John 14:6)
For most of time, men and women have assumed that the truth was there to be found out. This began to change in the 19th century and the change gathered pace in the 20th. As people began to question the existence of God, it became obvious to some, that the existence of truth requires the existence of God. With God dismissed, it became impossible to conceive of truth in any absolute sense. This has resulted in the humiliation of truth. Truth is now whatever you would like it to be.
Truth's demise has filtered down through the great centers of learning, the arts, and on into streets and homes. Everything is possible with truth gone. Everything is permissible. Musicians make music that doesn't sound musical. Painters paint pictures that are incomprehensible to normal folk. Playwrights write plays that are nonsense, and architects design buildings that no one can understand. All this is put forward as legitimate, but what does it all mean?
No matter how much... popular culture---is encouraged to believe in the relativity of truth, no one can build a decent life on such a notion.
Inevitably proponents of freedom from God, and from absolute truth, are obliged to reach outside of their own system, and borrow something from theism in order to make their lives work. The person who believes that everything is valid, will soon find that he is condemned to meaninglessness. Christ is a standing offer of escape from such a hell as this To believe that truth is like Christ, is salvation indeed.
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SECT/CULT ATHEISM---SCHLOCK esoteric(alien/bizarro) science!
The founding fathers I believe...
were interested in wealth--character--virtue---
not SCHLOCKOLOGY/ideology(mantras--race/gender/class/PHILOSOPHY rhetoric) ---
hedonism/heresy via SCHLOCKOLOGISTS/quacks/whacks---social engineers(liberals/evolutionists/atheists)!
I'm whacking 'religion'...atheism---LIBERALISM---devilcRATS!
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Creation/God...Christianity---secular-govt.-humanism/SCIENCE---CIVILIZATION!
Originally the word liberal meant social conservatives(no govt religion--none) who advocated growth and progress---mostly technological(knowledge being absolute/unchanging)based on law--reality... UNDER GOD---the nature of GOD/man/govt. does not change. These were the Classical liberals...founding fathers-PRINCIPLES---stable/SANE scientific reality/society---industrial progress...moral/social character-values(private/personal) GROWTH(limited NON-intrusive PC Govt/religion---schools)!
Evolution...Atheism-dehumanism---TYRANNY(pc-religion/rhetoric)...
Then came the SPLIT SCHIZOPHRENIA/ZOMBIE/BRAVE-NWO1984 America
It's all around you, especially in beautiful West Virginia.
Go buy yourself a copy of The Origin of the Species and read it. Rememeber the parts about genera and species.
Then go buy yourself a copy of Peterson's Guide to Eastern Wild Flowers. Then take several Sunday afternoons and go to the woods or fields. Try to identify all the flowers you find. Carefully note the fact there are families. genera and species. As you learn to identify there will be many that are hard because they are not as shown. They are different. They are evolution in action.
All you have to do is learn a little about botany and there will be more evidence than you have time to digest. It's all there now waiting for you to discover.
Your writing style is characteristic of the above disorder.
Now that we have both amply covered the fact that we can cut/paste from Websters, would you like to discuss likely mechanisms for a generational approach to engineering having startling results, or would you prefer to just ramble as per your usual methodology?
...not worth an airborne fornication.
They were developed in an evolutionary fashion by human selection. a really good example is an inkjet printer. As soon as one is manufactured the engineers can select different changes for the next generation.
Evolutionists are the weed(maggot-flies)...
rotten infested fruit from the REPROBATES/parasites/blood-life suckers of Truth/civilization!
Pretty simple...Tree of Life/Truth vs death/lies(devils/heresy)!
You make a good one!
missing--Butchered dove(TRUTH/SCIENCE/CONSTITUTION)---
appearing rabbit(RATS)/... 'saviors'' !
Then came the...
SPLIT SCHIZOPHRENIA/PSYCHO-EVO/NWO Soviet-LIBERAL-Socialist GULAG America---
the post-modern age of switch-flip-spin-DEFORMITY-cancer...
Atheist secular materialists through ATHEISM/evolution CHANGED-REMOVED the foundations...demolished the wall(separation of state/religion)--trampled the TRUTH-GOD...built a satanic temple/SWAMP-MALARIA/RELIGION(cult of darwin-marx-satan) over them---made these absolutes subordinate--relative...
REDACTING them
and calling/CHANGING---
all the... residuals(technology/science) === TO evolution via schlock/sMUCK IDEOLOGY/lies/bias...
to substantiate/justify/validate their efforts--claims...social engineering--PC--atheism...
anti-God/Truth RELIGION(USSC monopoly)---
and declared a crusade/WAR--JIHAD--INTOLERANCE/TYRANNY(breaking the establishment clause)...
against God--man--society/SCIENCE(religious oath-TEST for office/employment)!!
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