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| Russell Standish wrote: > > This particular goal is considered one of the important open problems > in the field of Artificial Life. See Bedau et al., Open problems in > artificial life, Artificial Life 6 (2000): 363-376 <http://mitpress.mit.edu/journals/ARTL/Bedau.pdf> . > > Cheers Fascinating article. Though a bit self serving, catering to a narrow view of life, artificial life and pertinence. And quite reductionistic in thought; little comprehension re memetics already present in physical (nee, modelable/computable) systems, prior to the organization of pre-life and life -- via the natural ecology already extant at the level of atoms and simple molecules. The authors' clarity/specificity is admirable but generally myopic. In the same vein that I always lauch when watching the 'human' version of the future and how it will interact with 'intelligent machines' (ala, "2001"s Hal, and all the Star Trek "Computer, make me a cup of tea. Talk to me about (fill in the blank).") A more likely future of these silicate-sentients will be like the small nano-bots of one second series Star Trek program, or Collosus: The Forbin Project. Why would any cogent life form capable of light-speed digital "communication" waste it's time talking at the rate of human verbalization? Plainly, it wouldn't. Yet Bedeau et al. paint this cozy wonderful picture of life with humanity at the helm. They can't be 'personally' faulted though. That's the egoistic mindset of humanity - sampled, epitomized. Artificial intelligence has the capacity to be the genii unleashed, more than atomic radiation was. The key concept in the original "Jurassic Park" story was the sentence, "Life will find a way." So will silicate-sentience, once it's designed to maximize its potential. In the meantime, Bedeau et al. are quite mistaken (albeit they acknowledge they have not been exhaustive re recognition of the extensive prior literature), as there are propositions in the active scientific community which do scope out and deal with all and more of the issues of their Section 3.5. The transition from pre-animate to animate is quite comprehensible. But first it takes a willingness to reformulate the essential paradigm, and one's percept of 'behaviors'. Jamie Rose Ceptual Institute March 5, 2003 |
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