Predatory behavior and food finding? 

Do these traits evolve over time or do you have to monkey with the genome to
have them manifest themselves?

Jimm

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Maciej Komosinski's picture

> Do these traits evolve over time or do you have to monkey with the genome to
> have them manifest themselves?

they evolve if you set up appropriate evolutionary conditions
and adjust parameters. See the predator-prey experiment in

http://www.aisland.org/vll/projects/

(may be temporarily unavailable, but the web site will be
fixed soon; or contact Walter de Back for recent results).

MacKo

"Maciej Komosinski"
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>
> > Do these traits evolve over time or do you have to monkey with the
genome to
> > have them manifest themselves?
>
> they evolve if you set up appropriate evolutionary conditions
> and adjust parameters. See the predator-prey experiment in
>
> http://www.aisland.org/vll/projects/
>
> (may be temporarily unavailable, but the web site will be
> fixed soon; or contact Walter de Back for recent results).
>
>
> MacKo
>

Has anyone gotten these to work with version 2.10? for the pred-prey
foodchain.zip i get the following VM errors:

VMachine->getObject->acessing 'set' in null object
VMachine->getObject->acessing 'get' in null object

(also hcan't get any of the others on the site to work.. I never had version
2.9 so i can't tell if its a version thing)

Maciej Komosinski's picture

>>they evolve if you set up appropriate evolutionary conditions
>>and adjust parameters. See the predator-prey experiment in
>>
>>http://www.aisland.org/vll/projects/
>>
> Has anyone gotten these to work with version 2.10? for the pred-prey
> foodchain.zip i get the following VM errors:
>
> VMachine->getObject->acessing 'set' in null object
> VMachine->getObject->acessing 'get' in null object
>
> (also hcan't get any of the others on the site to work.. I never had version
> 2.9 so i can't tell if its a version thing)

Yes, it is a version thing. Contact Walter de Back, he has
fixed the scripts, but perhaps hasn't yet updated the web site...

> Yes, it is a version thing. Contact Walter de Back, he has
> fixed the scripts, but perhaps hasn't yet updated the web site...

The v2.10-compatible version is available at

http://www.aisland.org/vll/expdefs/pp210.zip

It should work, but it is still in heavy development.