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Thomas S. Ray
ATR Human Information Processing Research Laboratories
2-2 Hikaridai, Seika-cho, Soraku-gun, Kyoto, 619-02, Japan
ray@hip.atr.co.jp, ray@santafe.edu, ray@udel.edu
March 21, 1995
Abstract:
The proposed project will create a very large, complex and inter-connected
region of cyberspace that will be inoculated with digital organisms which
will be allowed to evolve freely through natural selection. The objective
is to set off a digital analog to the Cambrian explosion of diversity, in
which multi-cellular digital organisms (parallel processes) will
spontaneously increase in diversity and complexity. If successful, this
evolutionary process will allow us to find the natural form of parallel
and distributed processes, and will generate extremely complex digital
information processes that fully utilize the capacities inherent in our
parallel and networked hardware. The project will be funded through the
donation of spare CPU cycles from thousands of machines connected to the
net, by running the reserve as a low priority background process on
participating nodes.
Thomas S.Ray
Tue Aug 1 16:54:18 JST 1995