Turing Machines and Evolution. A Critique of Gregory Chaitin’s Metabiology
Abstract
The aim of the paper is twofold. First, it presents the fundamental ideas and results of the “metabiology” created by Gregory Chaitin. Second, it shows why metabiology ultimately fails as a candidate for being a proper mathematical model for the theory of evolution by natural selection. Because of genocentric reductionism and biological oversimplifications, metabiology should be perceived rather as an expression of the philosophical worldview of it’s author.
Language: English
Page range: 133 - 150
Published on: Mar 16, 2017
Published by: University of Białystok
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