These are quite interesting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YPYYvZOGlU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09Q5l47jTy8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&v=PBXO_6Jn1fs
Are these not forms of life? Jason On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Jason Resch <jasonre...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 8:24 AM, William R. Buckley < > bill.buck...@gmail.com> 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: 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. >> >> > -- 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.
