Hi Bruno Marchal Life is whatever operates autonomously, not following any rules, laws, or programs. Thus a Turing machine cannot be part of a live creature. Even if it reprograms itself, it must be constrained by the computer language and operating system.
Roger Clough, [email protected] 10/12/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen ----- Receiving the following content ----- From: Bruno Marchal Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-10-12, 10:23:52 Subject: Re: Continuous Game of Life 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. -- 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.
