Message from @Sophie
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No
That’s why I thought we were starting with the assumption that the cells already know they have to survive
But if you shot a missile at 100,000,000 artificial machines, and one was programmed to
Then you’d only be left with machines that dodge missiles
Cells don’t “know” anything
Or if it accidentally dodged the missile
Because evolution doesn’t allow programming
Yes it does
That’s what instinct is
No it doesn’t. Programming requires an intelligent programmer
Have you seen planet earth 2?
No it doesn’t
Have you heard of machine learning?
Yeah, I use machine learning
It's not *literal* computer programming, think of that term a bit more abstractly
I literally program the algorithms
Ok, so let’s say you start with a program
And you randomly change that program
Even with machine learning, the program needs a goal. It needs instructions
That’s what selective pressure does
It gives it a goal
The goal is to exist
But it has no goal
The goal is to reproduce and continue the species, ultimately
Because anything that fails to exist, doesn’t exist
The cells have no algorithm
Yes they do
They respond to stimuli
That’s an algorithm
You can think of a cell as a series of Boolean operators
*operations
I’m going to find something to show you how machine learning works
Right, I also use machine learning in my job
Let’s focus on evolution
Are you sure?
So DNA, which acts as a program
Uh huh
Programs cells
Uh, ok