Will,
I think the original issue was about purpose. In your system, since a human is
the one determining which programs are performing the best, the purpose is
defined in the mind of the human. Beyond that, it certainly sounds as if it is
a self-organizing system.
Terren
--- On Tue, 7/1/08, William Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm not sure how the system qualifies. It seems to be
> half way between
> the two definitions you gave. The programs can have special
> instructions in that bid for a specific resource with as
> much credit
> as they want (see my recent message replying to Vladimir
> Nesov for
> more information about banks, bidding and credit). The
> instructions
> can be removed or not done, the amount of credit bid can be
> changed.
> The credit is given to some programs by a fixed function,
> but they
> have instructions they can execute (or not) to give it to
> other
> programs forming an economy. What say you, self-organised
> or not?
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