Re: [FRIAM] A distinguishing feature of living entities

2023-05-29 Thread Steve Smith
e world of language (the name or I) -J. Original message From: Russ Abbott Date: 5/29/23 7:08 AM (GMT+01:00) To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: [FRIAM] A distinguishing feature of living entities While watching my

Re: [FRIAM] A distinguishing feature of living entities

2023-05-29 Thread Jochen Fromm
ot;https://brocku.ca/MeadProject/James/James_1912/James_1912_02.html-J. Original message From: Russ Abbott Date: 5/29/23 8:01 PM (GMT+01:00) To: Jochen Fromm Cc: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] A distinguishing feature of living entiti

Re: [FRIAM] A distinguishing feature of living entities

2023-05-29 Thread Marcus Daniels
d Complexity Coffee Group mailto:friam@redfish.com>> Subject: [FRIAM] A distinguishing feature of living entities While watching my two little dogs run around our house, it struck me that a feature that distinguishes living from non-living entities is the apparent effortlessness with which living

Re: [FRIAM] A distinguishing feature of living entities

2023-05-29 Thread Russ Abbott
y > creating a link between the embodiment in the physical world (the body) and > the embodiment in the world of language (the name or I) > > -J. > > > Original message > From: Russ Abbott > Date: 5/29/23 7:08 AM (GMT+01:00) > To: The Friday Morning Appl

Re: [FRIAM] A distinguishing feature of living entities

2023-05-29 Thread Russ Abbott
Thanks for the follow-up Steve, Great videos! -- Russ On Mon, May 29, 2023 at 9:14 AM Steve Smith wrote: > > Russ - > > I also have a lot of life in my immediate environment, with a 1 year old > puppy and kitty who grew up wrestling their way through the house and take > one another's cues

Re: [FRIAM] A distinguishing feature of living entities

2023-05-29 Thread Jochen Fromm
Subject: [FRIAM] A distinguishing feature of living entities While watching my two little dogs run around our house, it struck me that a feature that distinguishes living from non-living entities is the apparent effortlessness with which living ones navigate the world. Imagine how difficult it wo

Re: [FRIAM] A distinguishing feature of living entities

2023-05-29 Thread Steve Smith
Russ - I also have a lot of life in my immediate environment, with a 1 year old puppy and kitty who grew up wrestling their way through the house and take one another's cues when it comes to alerting to the birds outside the window and the moths and flies who are silly enough to be available

[FRIAM] A distinguishing feature of living entities

2023-05-28 Thread Russ Abbott
While watching my two little dogs run around our house, it struck me that a feature that distinguishes living from non-living entities is the apparent effortlessness with which living ones navigate the world. Imagine how difficult it would be to build a robot that could navigate the world so