[Haskell-cafe] Rather off topic: An ab initio universe simulation?

[Tom Nielsen]

Have you read: Fontana & Buss : "What would be conserved if 'the tape
were played twice'?" in PNAS? It's quite fun - they model chemical
reaction as alpha-reduction in the lambda calculus and look at
evolution.

Tom

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 10:15 PM, Ketil Malde <ketil at malde.org> wrote:
> Michael Lesniak <mlesniak at uni-kassel.de> writes:
>
>> Hence the interpreter can itself be modified?
>
> Well - the interpreter in nature is chemistry.  Living organisms are
> just chemistry programs.
>
> -k
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