Hi Russell, Even more suggestive is its similarity to Butschli protocells... see this video for example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tmTDvL1AUs and many others uploaded by Rachel Armstrong... as she describes them "a simple self-organizing system that is formed by the addition of a drop of alkali to a field of olive oil - first described by Otto Butschli 1898" Terren On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Russell Standish <li...@hpcoders.com.au> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 05:50:11AM -0700, 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? >> >> Craig > > Assuming this system exhibits universality like the original GoL, and > assuming COMP, then some patterns will exhibit consciousness. However, > the patterns will no doubt be astronomical in size. The movies you see > here would be like taking an electron microscopic movie of the inner > workings of part of one cell in the human body. > > I was more struck by the apparent similarity of the movie to the formation of > bilipid membranes. > > -- > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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.
