Apparently its not so simple to achieve "The Artificial Life of Synthetic Actors" http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.13.8387&rep=rep1&type=pdf
Lots of dynamic collisions and collision detection mechanisms floating about. Just came across this http://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2012/06/14/cyber-security-and-the-rise-of-the-silicon-based-life-form/ "Silicon-based life forms now make short work of tasks that once took us many man hours to accomplish. In addition to carrying crushing computational loads without complaint, they deliver our communications at the speed of light, transact business on our behalf and help us more efficiently perform the tasks we still perform. We think a lot about the way we interact with them. Few of us, however, think about how silicon-based life forms interact with one another." On 9/20/12, Nicholas Thompson <nickthomp...@earthlink.net> wrote: > Robots do lip service quite handily. > > "We value your call." > > Nick > > -----Original Message----- > From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On > Behalf > Of Sarbajit Roy > Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2012 11:22 PM > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] faith, zombies, and crazy people > > Glen: > > (aside) In addition to my "faith" hat, I also have a "designer/manufacturer > of programmable logic controller" hat. > > To design an artificial life form (android / zombie ...) capable of > successfully passing among humans in a religious (faith) setting you would > probably need tons of "memory" (or else some channeling reinforcement, > probabilistic determinative etc. mechanism) and the ability to dynamically > mimic "emotions" such as "boredom", "guilt", "trust", "sin", "obedience", > "lip-service" etc. The zombie wouldn't have to bring much "knowledge" or > "wisdom" to this setting as the more brain dead it is the easier it is for > to pass. > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, > unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
