Kory Heath, [EMAIL PROTECTED], writes:
It is very likely that even Conway's Life universe has this feature. Its
rules are absurdly simple, and we know that it can contain self-replicating
structures, which would be capable of mutation, and therefore evolution. We
can specify very simple
CMR wrote:
Indeed. The constraints to, and requirements for, terrestrial life have had
to be revised and extended of late, given thermophiles and the like. Though
they obviously share our dimensional requisites, they do serve to highlight
the risk of prematurely pronouncing the facts of life.
From: Eric Hawthorne
One of the issues is the computational complexity of running all the
possible i.e. definable programs to create an informational multiverse
out of which consistent, metric, regular, observable info-universes
emerge. If computation takes energy (as it undeniably does
Just to be mischievous, I'll here pronounce the facts of life or more
precisely
a sketch of a theory of the emergence of life which will serve the
purpose of partially constraining/
defining what is meant by life. This is a hobby project.
Wow! A Rather exhaustive and admittedly impressive
CMR wrote:
I think it's useful here to note that from the strong AI point of view
life as it could be is empahasized as opposed to life as we know it.
It's also worth pointing out that the latter is based upon a single data
point sample of all possible life, that sample consisting of life that
My 2½ pence on Mind AND Brain:
IMO (no persuasion intended) our mental complexity is an ASPECT of the
complexity human (which is part(ner) of enveloping (interinfluencing?)
complexities unlimited - applies a material tool with a very high level (how
high is it?) of interconnectional complexity. It
Plato is Plato.
Can't argue with that logic. (Although perhaps Korzybski might...) ;)
And the last thing I want to condone is a special kind of 'modernization':
to fashion the human complexity (mind?) after the (designed) functions of
a
machine, which is a partial product of the human
The Emergence of Life paper is talking specifically about those sorts
of life that can emerge
WITHOUT THE ASSISTANCE OF AN ALREADY SMARTER, MORE-ORGANIZED AGENT.
That's why that kind of life (natural life) is a truly emergent or
(emergent from less-order) system.
Well, I'm an agnostic, but
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