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To: Lev
I don't know how to a species' fitness function might be calculated

How then can you have any expectation of convincing anyone of the value of the now incalculable result?

1,225 posted on 03/21/2002 8:47:29 PM PST by AndrewC
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To: AndrewC
Lev: I don't know how to a species' fitness function might be calculated

How then can you have any expectation of convincing anyone of the value of the now incalculable result?

This is an interesting question - how useful is a function if we can't calculate its value? First of all, I didn't try to convince anybody that fitness value for parameter 5 is 10. I only tried to show how the shape of such function might affect the species' evolution. Do you think fitness functions do not exist? Or even if they do we can't say anything about their properties since we can't calculate them? Well, we can't calculate how long a person will live either, but we can predict for example that the value will go down as 'food' parameter goes from 'healthy' to 'junk'. Regards.

1,257 posted on 03/22/2002 6:33:06 AM PST by Lev
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