Quantum Mechanical Words and Mathematical Organisms
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Quantum Mechanical Words and Mathematical Organisms
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#2Graphical calculi for monoidal categories date back to Kelly and Laplaza (1980), with later refinements by Joyal-Street and Yetter. In incipient form, such diagrams were used by Penrose, with applications in physics, in 1971 (http://homepages.math.uic.edu/~kauffman/Penrose.pdf). The use of categorical methods in linguistics was pioneered by Lambek and can be seen as early as 1958 (http://ling.umd.edu/~alxndrw/CGReadings/lambek-58.pdf). While Coecke has done important work in these areas, it's incredibly misleading to paint these ideas as his alone.
Likewise, evolutionary algorithms have a long history, beginning at least as far back as Barricelli in 1954. Since I know nothing about Chaitin's work on this, I can't say to what extent his work is novel, but there is a vast historical context one should be aware of when talking about simulating evolution.