Horse, On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 4:19 PM, Horse <ho...@darkstar.uk.net> wrote: > Hi Folks > > My personal opinion is that I'd be very wary of defining the Biological > level/patterns as those containing DNA. DNA is the vehicle used to enable > self-replication or reproduction. It is, admittedly, the only experience we > possess of self replication thus far so within those bounds it's not a major > problem - I'm just very wary of making the assumption that because it's all > we know so far it's all we'll ever know!
Dan: I totally agree. Still, and until something better comes along, the presence of DNA seems a good (the only?) way to separate inorganic patterns from biological patterns. > I think Magnus Berg had some good ideas from the early days of the Lila > Squad (the original Lila Squad not the Johnny come lately bunch) regarding > AI and the biological level. Be nice if he read this and joined in :) Indeed! Thanks, Horse! Dan http://www.danglover.com Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html