On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 05:42:45PM -0400, John Mikes wrote: > Dear Russell, > based on my 2-decade long reading of your posts I have a question, if you > don't mind: > I guess you are still interested in AL, so "L" is includable. > What is " L I F E " in your view?
One of the reasons for studying AL is to get a better handle on what we mean by "life". Obviously it has something to do with information processing, emergent phenomena, complex systems and evolution, so all these topics come under scrutiny. I don't think it is as quite a hopeless question as what is consciousness (or even what is pornography!), but it is still a difficult beast, and one that will take a few generations more of scientists before there can be some agreement. > you said: biocomplexity, This doesn't sound like me... :( Context? what raises the > question in my mind: wat is that "bio" we know so little about, but speak > so much about? I am all for complexity - the infinite one beyond our > 'model' we live in and by, of which we have but precious little information > beyond that model. > So do you have a restriction of complexities we should call life? > (Then we may try to identify how to reproduce such artificially. Maybe a > lot more difficult than identifying AI without a clear definition of "I"). > > John Mikes > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
