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 The problem: computer languages are too fragile or "brittle". Mutate the code, and the whole thing dies.
-Determined to succeed, Ray turns his back on 15 years of biology research and tenure at the University of Delaware to build
+Determined to succeed, Ray left behind 15 years of biology research to model biological evolution in a digital world.
 ===1990: Tierra is born===
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 "I stood back and watched like a god satisfied with his creation"
-===To the LPU and beyond===
+===Exploring A New World===
-Over 30 papers, articles, and journals were published in the span of 5 years. The next 20 years of research is spent pushing the field of artificial life and digital evolution.
+Over 30 papers, articles, and journals were published in the span of 5 years. The next 20 years of research is spent pushing the field of artificial life and digital evolution. Highlights include:
 : Transition to Computational Evolution and Documenting Tierra
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    * A proposal to create a network-wide biodiversity reserve for digital organisms.
+   * The first Tierra workshop - derivative works (Charles Ofria, Avida)
+   * The last Terria workshop?
+   * Evolving Parallel Computation
+   * Evolution as Artist (applying evolution to the world of art and the creative process)
-Critique of Ray Kurzweil's Age of Spiritual Machines
+   * Documentation of the Tierra program released
-Ray: "Kurzweil does not understand that it is the act of measurement that causes the collapse of the wave function, not conscious observation of the measurement."
+   * Aesthetically Evolved Virtual Pets
-Kurzweil: "It is only through the collapse of the wave function that an event becomes determinate and thereby causes a reaction in the world, which constitutes a measurement. It is, therefore, the collapse of the wave function that causes measurement, which Ray tells us causes collapse of the wave function. So what Ray is saying is that the collapse of the wave function causes the collapse of the wave function. By removing the concept of observation from measurement, Ray’s explanation of quantum mechanics devolves into this tautology."
+   * Evolution of Complexity: Tissue Differentiation in Network Tierra
-{{ :coursework:2014f:vizzini.jpg?nolink |Truly, Kurzweil has a dizzying intellect}}
+   * Critique of Ray Kurzweil's Age of Spiritual Machines
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-Evolution, Robustness and Adaptation of Sidewinding Locomotion of Simulated Snake-like Robot
+   * Evolution, Robustness and Adaptation of Sidewinding Locomotion of Simulated Snake-like Robot
 (Last* Artificial Life publication):
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 Ray, T. S. 2010. Psychedelics and the Human Receptorome. PLoS ONE., February 2, 2010.
 "It should be possible to use this diverse set of drugs as probes into the roles played by the various receptor systems in the human mind."
+   * Mental Organs and the Origins of Mind
+Mind Research:
    * The human mind is populated by mental organs
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 and thus provide the mechanisms by which evolution sculpts the mind.
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+   * Future minds, mental organs and ways of knowing.
+     * Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research
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 [[http://life.ou.edu/tierra/|Tierra Project Homepage]]
+[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl5rRGVD0QI|Tierra Project Movie (YouTube | 22:37) 1995 - With Stephanie Forrest]]