bruce damer on evogrid @ smartlab-oct 2008

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The EvoGrid Origins of Life Question Vision How Consequences Simulating an Origin of Life Event

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Bruce Damer's presentation of the EvoGrid initiative at the SMARTLab in October of 2008

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Page 1: Bruce Damer on EvoGrid @ SMARTLab-Oct 2008

The EvoGrid

Origins of LifeQuestion

VisionHow

Consequences

Simulating an Origin of Life Event

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Origins of Life: Archaean to CambrianDigital Burgess 1997, A quest for life’s algorithmic

origins in the “Cambrian Explosion”, Biota.org

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Early exemplar: Karl Sims’ Evolving Virtual Creatures (1991-4)

Artificial Life: Concept begins in the 1940s, field named in the 1980s,

progress through the 1990s, 2000s

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Karl Sims’ Evolving Virtual Creatures

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The Question

Can Artificial Life arise spontaneously from Artificial Non-Life

and does this shed light onthe Origins of Life from Non-Life

& etc. etc.

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The Vision: EvoGrid The MovieA Thought Experiment - Storyboards

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EvoGrid The MovieA Thought Experiment – Rough Cut 3

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The How: Implementation

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The How: Implementation

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The Consequences

Will biologists (one day) declare these synthetic biological environments “worthy of study as a living system”?

Would an EvoGrid and harnessing the power of evolution become a tool for Humanity in the 21st Century? Would it become a mechanism for life’s expanded presence into the Solar System or for the survival and extension of life on Earth?

How does a successful origin of life simulation affect our sense of God, our presence in the Universe and the future of life?

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New Book: Divine Action and Natural Selection

Damer Chapter: The God Detector, Gordon Chapter: Hoyle’s Tornado and the Origin of Artificial Life

Seckbach, Gordon, World Scientific (2008)

Upcoming book (launch October 27th, 2008)

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(Only at the very beginning of this thinking)

Closing Thought

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Resources and Acknowledgements

Project EvoGrid at: http://www.evogrid.orgProject Biota & Podcast at: http://www.biota.org

DigitalSpace 3D simulations and all (open) source code at: http://www.digitalspace.com

We would also like to thank NASA and many others for funding support for this work. Other acknowledgements for this presentation include: Dr. Richard Gordon at the University of Manitoba, the team at DM3D Studios, Peter Newman, Ryan Norkus, Exploring Life’s Origins Project, Scientific American Frontiers, and S. Gross.