On 10/7/07, Russell Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/7/07, J Storrs Hall, PhD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [rest of post and other recent ones agreed with] > > > It remains to be seen whether replicating Life patterns could evolve to > > become > > intelligent. > > No formal proof, but informally: definitely no. Our universe has all > sorts of special properties that make intelligence adaptive, that > Conway's Life doesn't have. Intelligence would be baggage in that > universe; best survivors will be bacterialike fast self-replicators > (maybe simpler than bacteria for all I know: it might turn out to be > optimal to ditch general assembler capability).
Well, given that it's Turing complete, it should have all forms of intelligent entities too (probably including us), they just may be non-trivial to observe. -- Vladimir Nesov mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=50895299-720166
