Framsticks

hi macko,

just finished reading the new book by wolfram, named 'a new kind of sciende'
and here he describes that everything complex (complexity) can be described
using simple programmes that use very simple rules. This also aplies to
biology and thus he concludes that natural selection using mutation and
crossover and sexual reproduction just cannot be the reason for the
diversity in biological life as we see. (it just takes to long and the
results would lead to a averaged results, instead of what we see.) He says
it is just caused by random effects in the genotypes and that natural
selection is just there for 'scaling down' (smoothing out) the overal
effects, instead of constructing. I was wondering if you have read his book
(basicly i refer to chapter 8) and was wondering if so how this will benifit
your research and eventually the framsticks program. if not it can reconment
it cause i think it can definitely change the future development of
framstciks

gr