On Friday, October 12, 2012 4:42:56 PM UTC-4, Russell Standish 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. >
Unlike part of a human cell though, they are just an optical presentation with no mass or chemical composition. Craig > > 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 [email protected]<javascript:> > 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/everything-list/-/qSGoNeh7gUMJ. 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.
