"phillip smith"  wrote in message
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> in article atiuqt$qdu$1{at}darwin.ediacara.org, Satish Chetty at
> sc0125a{at}yahoo.com wrote on 16/12/02 11:13 AM:
>
> > So my question is, if I had to program/build a robot (may be carbon
> > based) to survive on alien planet, whose environment may or may not
> > change, what should I do? In other words, how to program and speed up
> > evolution
> It would have to be able to reproduce. And I would suggest it had an
abilty
> to go into a hyberating or diapause  state. It could thus escape
unfavorable
> conditions by the very simple strategy of waiting for change.
> One such individual would not be enough as bad luck could eliminate it.
You
> would probably need a starting population of some size.

Have yet to look up this word "hyberating" ;-)

I take it that you meant to write "hibernating".

Anyway, perhaps you then also are receptive to the simple idea of ~: the
evolutionary (and evolution philosophical/theoretical) significance of a
category of adversely affecting selective pressures that may be described as
"Hibernation imploring type (life-)situations", and a subset thereof that
can be described as "_selective Hibernation_ imploring type situations".?

Regards,
Peter
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