On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 8:24 AM, William R. Buckley <[email protected]>wrote:
> No, Langton's loops do not count. Nor do any published > cellular automaton. > > William, Do these count: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_universal_constructor ? > 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. > > I am interested in seeing these papers. If you don't use e-mail to interact with this list, you can go to the google group's page to get any poster's e-mail address. It has some anti-spam protection which is slightly safer than posting one's e-mail address directly to this list. Jason > wrb > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] [mailto:everything- > > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Russell Standish > > Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 3:09 AM > > To: [email protected] > > 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 [email protected] > > 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 [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything- > > [email protected]. > > 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 [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > 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 [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
