In computational terms, I see Bergsonism as a philosophy that fully embraces
the unpredictability of interaction and the accumulated histories of
side-effects.
Bergson has often been dismissed as a 'vitalist' positing an alternative
substance driving life, but this is quite wrong. He was
On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 11:40 -0700, Alan Kay wrote:
Hi Chris
I think looking at the way biology works is a good perspective. By the way,
we
recycle not just the 10 trillion cells that contain our DNA (and the 90
Trillion
cells we have with microbial DNA/RNA), but all our *atoms* are
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 3:13 AM, Chris Warburton
chriswa...@googlemail.comwrote:
On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 11:40 -0700, Alan Kay wrote:
The only human artifact that is remotely like this is the Internet, which
has
been able to grow and replace most parts large and small without having
to ever
Thanks for the link! RDP looks quite interesting, and I'm looking forward to
further developments. Some of the space-time leakage problems of the early
FRP models have been addressed with Nillson and Hudak's Arrows-based Yampa
system; could you use any of this in your Haskell RDP implementation?
On Sat, 2011-06-25 at 09:39 -0700, Steve Wart wrote:
I've been thinking about eternal computing not so much in the context
of software, but more from a cultural level.
Software ultimately runs on some underlying physical computing
machine, and physical machines are always changing. If you
: [fonc] Eternal computing
On Sat, 2011-06-25 at 09:39 -0700, Steve Wart wrote:
I've been thinking about eternal computing not so much in the context
of software, but more from a cultural level.
Software ultimately runs on some underlying physical computing
machine, and physical machines
Related to the bio perspective on computation, has anyone on this list
explored the ideas of Tibor Ganti's Chemoton Theory in relation to
computation and programming? It's a really interesting example of how
to abstract out the essence of biological systems in a way that
simplifies without losing
From: Wesley Smith wesley.h...@gmail.com
To: Fundamentals of New Computing fonc@vpri.org
Sent: Wed, June 29, 2011 12:16:55 PM
Subject: Re: [fonc] Eternal computing
Related to the bio perspective on computation, has anyone on this list
explored the ideas of Tibor Ganti's
I can't help wondering whether or not it was any easier to keep a system
running when systems were big enough to climb inside of. When my tablet bricks
and refuses to take a flash, I can open the machine (I mean I can break it
open) but the part that computes and remembers is all one piece now.
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com wrote:
Thanks for the references to The Chemoton Theory -- I hadn't seen this
before.
But I didn't understand your reference to Bergson -- wasn't he an adherent
of the Elan Vital as a necessary part of what is life? and that also
On Jun 29, 2011, at 2:03 PM, Wesley Smith wesley.h...@gmail.com wrote:
The aspect of Bersgon that I was thinking about though was the concept
of duration, particularly that of the cerebral interval (the time
between a received movement and an executed movement), which generates
perception.
A couple more references in this vein:
Robert Rosen's work in theoretical biology predates the autopoiesis theory
of Maturana and Varela by a couple decades, and is somewhat more general and
mathematically rigorous. He's not as well-known, but his book *Life
Itself* is well
worth reading,
I've been thinking about eternal computing not so much in the context
of software, but more from a cultural level.
Software ultimately runs on some underlying physical computing
machine, and physical machines are always changing. If you want a
program to run for a long time, the software needs to
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