Glen -
No references. As far as I know, I made it up. 8^) I'm sure I've
stolen it from somewhere, though.
Thanks... I definitely don't need you to be a scholar and I'm completely
comfortable with stuff people pull out of a dark place on their own....
while any given example may be total shite, every once in a while a true
gem emerges.
If I were to cite anyone, it would be
Lima de Faria and "autoevolution".
LIma de Faria is a great lead, this is the class of reference I was
looking for... parallel work to your ideas and/or sources of inspiration
and parallax.
But it's also inspired by
autopoiesis. And there's a good dose of this mixed in:
http://www.gprolog.org/manual/gprolog.html#htoc342
Prolog was my first AI language after SNOBOL (if you can call SNOBOL
that)... I'm sure with the pedigree of folks here I'm not the only one
to have learned Griswold's SNOBOL... but can anyone claim to have
learned ICON?
I wouldn't say it attempts to explain human behavior as automata. It's
more an assertion that there is really only 1 source of all the variety
we see around us, the impetus to fill/explore a space. I haven't yet
decided if it's a categorically different thing that the rest of
matter/energy. Human (or any, including quantum foam) behavior is just
an artifact of the twitch sampling a constrained space. The constrained
space has properties, including being more or less dense in various
dimension. The denser the space, the more options/points the twitch has
to explore.
This seems parallel/related to Kauffman's "fourth law" and is compelling
to me as my own observations have slowly converged on a sense (could
totally be the iterative application of confirmation bias I fear) that
*all* activity in the universe (there I go with the absolutes I wanted
to bust Rich for) seems to be part of a grand ballroom dance of
self-organization running directly upstream from the entropy gradient.
I guess I'll twitch on all this a bit more...
Thanks,
- Steve
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