On 12 Oct 2012, at 14:50, Craig Weinberg wrote:
They are certainly cool looking and biomorphic. The question I have
is, at what point do they begin to have experiences...or do you
think that those blobs have experiences already?
Would it give them more of a human experience if an oscillating
smiley-face/frowny-face algorithm were added graphically into the
center of each blob?
Here is a "deterministic" simple phenomenon looking amazingly
"alive" (non-newtonian fluid):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zoTKXXNQIU
Is it alive? That question does not make sense for me. Yes with some
definition, no with other one. Unlike consciousness or intelligence
"life" is not a definite concept for me. I use usually the definition
"has a reproductive cycle". But this makes cigarettes and stars alive.
No problem for me.
Bruno
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
--
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.
