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History; Foundation; The Math Herein and the † Symbol; Introduction: : The Queen of Scientists and Engineers; Science & Models; Computer Models; The Improbable and the Impossible; Information. What is It?: Defining Information; Measuring Information; Kolmogorov – Chaitin – Solomonov (KCS) Information; KCS Information Using Prefix Free Programs; Random Programming and the Kraft Inequality; Knowability; Application; Shannon Information; Twenty Questions: Interval Halving and Bits; Shannon Information Applied to Interval Halving; Design Search in Evolution and the Requirement of Intelligence: Design as Search; WD-40 and Formula 409; Tesla, Edison and Domain Expertise; Design by Computer; Designing a Good Pancake; A Search for a Good Pancake; Cooking Times Plus Range; More Recipe Variables; Simulating Pancakes on a Computer with an Artificial Tongue; Sources of Knowledge; Designing Antennas Using Evolutionary Computing; The Curse of Dimensionality & the Need For Knowledge; Will Moore Ever Help? How About Grover?; Implicit Targets; Skeptic Fallibility; Loss of Function; Pareto Optimization and Optimal Suboptimality; A Man-in-the-Loop Sneaks in Active Information; Evolving Tic-Tac-Toe to Checkers to Chess; Replacing the Man-in-the-Loop with a Computer-in-the-Loop; A Smö rgåsbord of Search Algorithms; Determinism in Randomness: Bernoulli’s Principle of Insufficient Reason; \"Nothing is that Which Rocks Dream About.\"; Bernoulli’s Principle (PrOIR); Criticisms of Bernoulli’s Principle; Model Variations; Vague Definitions & Ambiguity: Bertrand’s Paradox; Continuous vs. Discrete Probability; The Need For Noise; Fixed Points in Random Events; Importance Sampling; Limit Cycles, Strange Attractors & Tetherball; Basener’s Ceiling; Tierra; The Edge of Evolution; Conservation of Information in Evolutionary Processes: The Genesis; What is Conservation of Information?; Deceptive Counterexamples; What Does Learning Have to do with Design?; Sumo Wrestlers Can’t Play Basketball; A Man-in-the-Loop Sneaks in Active Information; Back Room Tuning; The Astonishing Cost of Blind Search in Bits; Analysis; The Cost; Measuring Search Difficulty in Bits; Endogenous Information; Two Special Cases; Endogenous Information of the Crackle Barrel Puzzle; Active Information; Examples of Sources of Knowledge; Active Information per Query; A Subtle Distinction; Examples of Active Information; The Cracker Barrel Puzzle; The Monte Hall Problem; A Sibling Problem; Multiple Queries; Mining Active Information From Oracles; The Hamming Oracle; Weasel Ware and Variations of Information Mining; Sources of Information in Evolutionary Search; Population; Mutation Rate; Fitness Landscapes; Initialization; Stair Step Information & Transitional Functional Viability; Baby Steps; Developmental Functionality and Irreducible Complexity; Example: Using an EAR_TATTER_; Irreducible Complexity; Coevolution; The Search for the Search; The Problem; The Weak Case; The Strict Case; Proofs; Preliminaries; Analysis of Some Evolutionary Models: EV: A Software Model of Evolution; EV Structure; EV Vivisection; Information Sources Resident in EV; The Search; Search Using the Number Cruncher; Evolutionary Search; EV and Stochastic Hill Climbing; Mutation Rate; EV Ware; The Diagnosis; AVIDA: Stair Steps to Complexity Using NAND Logic; Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School District; Boolean Logic; NAND Logic; Logic Synthesis Using NAND Gates; The AVIDA Organism and Its Health; Information Analysis of Avida; The Evolutionary Approach; The Ratchet Approach; Minivida; The Full Program; Remove the Staircase; Minimal Instructions; Avida is Intelligently Designed; Beating a Dead Organism; Metabiology; The Essence of Halting; On With the Search; The Math: \"Intelligent Design\" in Metabiology; Sweeping a Dirt Floor; Evolving a Steiner Tree; Time for Evolution; Meaning of Meaning: Algorithmic Specified Complexity: Conditional KCS Complexity; Defining Algorithmic Specified Complexity; † High ASC is Rare; Examples of Algorithmic Specified Complexity; Extended Alphanumerics; Poker; Snowflakes; ASC in the Game of Life; The Game of Life; Cataloging Context; Still Life and Oscillators; Gliders; Higher Complexity; Measuring Information Content; Measuring; Measuring the Conditional KCS Complexity in Bits; Oscillator ASC; Measuring Meaning; Meaning is in the Eye of the Beholder; Intelligent Design & Artificial Intelligence: Turing & Lovelace: One is Strong and the Other One’s Dead; Turing’s Failure; The Lovelace Test and Intelligent Design; \"Flash of Genius\"; ID & the Unknowable

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