BOTS: Like Father, Like Son [0206.1998]

If I succeed in creating a bytecode language for bots... Then I can do some cool things with genetics:

• Mutate Bots
• Use a formal system to create abstract but workable bytecode.
• Evolve things from absolutely random bytecode.
• Come up with new rules for the formal system at random - anything goes as long as the results compile. Set up a system so that good rules live and bad rules die.
• Breed bots:
  • Asexually: Random mutations from one parent.
  • Grafting: New bot with access to either parent's routines.
  • Sexually (bot integration): actually merge the bytecode genetically.
• Run bots inside a virtual machine!!!!!!!!!