No, Langton's loops do not count. Nor do any published cellular automaton.
Read these papers: Computational Ontogeny, already published in Biological Theory and Constructor Ontogeny, accepted for full presentation at ECTA-2012. Send your email address and I will forward these papers. wrb > -----Original Message----- > From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything- > l...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Russell Standish > Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 3:09 AM > To: everything-list@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Why AI is impossible > > On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 07:22:21PM -0700, William R. Buckley wrote: > > Dear Russell: > > > > When you can design and build a machine that builds itself, not > > its replicant but itself, then I will heed better your advice. > > > > wrb > > I'm not entirely sure what you mean, but do Langton loops count? > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langton's_loops > > Cheers > > -- > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----- > Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) > Principal, High Performance Coders > Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au > University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Everything List" group. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything- > list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
