Mike, Autopoieisis is a basic building block of my philosophy of life and of cognition as well. I see life as: doing work to maintain an internal self-organization. It requires a boundary in which the entropy inside the boundary is kept lower than the entropy outside. Cognition is autopoieitic as well, although this is harder to see.
I have already shared my ideas on how to build a virtual intelligence that satisfies this definition. But in summary, you'd design a framework in which large numbers of interacting parts would evolve into an environment with emergent, persistent entities. Through a guided process you would make the environment more and more challenging, forcing the entities to solve harder and harder problems to stay alive, corresponding with ever increasing intelligence. At some distant point we may perhaps arrive at something with human-level intelligence or beyond. Terren --- On Fri, 10/10/08, Mike Tintner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Mike Tintner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [agi] open or closed source for AGI project? To: [email protected] Date: Friday, October 10, 2008, 11:30 AM Terren:autopoieisis. I wonder what your thoughts are about it? Does anyone have any idea how to translate that biological principle into building a machine, or software? Do you or anyone else have any idea what it might entail? The only thing I can think of that comes anywhere close is the Carnegie Mellon starfish robot with its sense of self. agi | Archives | Modify Your Subscription ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=114414975-3c8e69 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
