JQ>pim---
JQ> You still dont get my point. The logic can go both
JQ>ways...its random. Can a very ordered set of information can
JQ>become more ordered every generation(what would of had to
JQ>happened for us to get here) through random mutations? I get
JQ>your reasoning that bad mutations would not propogate, but the
JQ>chances become even more 'out of this world' each generation
JQ>that some random mutation will actually improve upon what was
JQ>previously improved upon.
JQ> This type of lottery type improvement would had to have
JQ>happened for millions of generations.
Hmmm. I think that I'd like to see your mathematical writeup
of this. If you are correct, then genetic algorithms can only
very rarely converge on good solutions. Since they do converge
quite regularly on good solutions, I suspect that you have a
problem somewhere in your assumptions or logic.
Wesley