Tag: simulations
Life and Origami: Lessons from the Art of Paper-Folding
The differences between an origami figure and a living thing are more instructive than their similarities.
Cronin-Tour at Harvard: How Researchers Smuggle Design into Their Theories
Cronin presented his Assembly Theory as a framework for understanding life’s origin. I believe he is correct but not in the way he intends.
Why We Don’t Evolve Software: A Computer Scientist Considers Darwinian Theory
Software engineers are trained in design principles, and also have real experience of how complex functional systems appear and change constructively.
Richard Dawkins’s Weasel Program Is Bad in Ways You Never Dreamed
His reductive approach causes him to miss a delicious irony.