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Inman Harvey - Senior Research Fellow

	Phone Location Email Webpage	++44 (1273) 87-8431 JMS 3D8 inmanh@sussex.ac.uk http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/users/inmanh/
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Research Interests

Development of artificial evolution as an approach to the design of complex systems - e.g. evolutionary robotics, evolvable hardware, molecules for pharmaceutical purposes. For long-term incremental evolution the appropriate strategies are embodied in `SAGA' - Species Adaptation Genetic Algorithms.

A current focus is Neutral Networks - pathways of neutral mutations through sequence space, or percolating `ridges' through fitness landscapes, which can be exploited by artificial evolution.

Evolutionary robotics links artificial evolution to my philosophical approaches to Artificial Life. I am a relativist, reject classical AI, and treat cognition as the outcome of sensori-motor couplings of an agent with its world. Pet hates: unthinking closet Platonists, careless and slipshod use of words such as `internal representation', `learning', `information', and particularly `computation'.