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#177 – Risto Miikkulainen: Neuroevolution and Evolutionary Computation

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Is There Meaning to It All?

From an evolutionary computation perspective, we look at all the agents that had to die in order to come up with different solutions. So far as humans, you're just one agent who's going to be dead unfortunately one day, too soon. What do you think is the why, of why that agent came to be and eventually will be no more? Is there meaning to it all? Yeah. In evolution, there is meaning. Everything is a potential direction. everything is a potential stepping stone. Some of them are foundations for further improvement. Even those that are perhaps going to die out where potential energy is potential solutions.

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