The Facts of Life

2004-01-18 Thread Eric Hawthorne
CMR wrote: Indeed. The constraints to, and requirements for, terrestrial life have had to be revised and extended of late, given thermophiles and the like. Though they obviously share our dimensional requisites, they do serve to highlight the risk of prematurely pronouncing the facts of life

Re: The Facts of Life

2004-01-18 Thread CMR
Just to be mischievous, I'll here pronounce the facts of life or more precisely a sketch of a theory of the emergence of life which will serve the purpose of partially constraining/ defining what is meant by life. This is a hobby project. Wow! A Rather exhaustive and admittedly impressive

Re: The Facts of Life and Hard AI

2004-01-18 Thread Eric Hawthorne
CMR wrote: I think it's useful here to note that from the strong AI point of view life as it could be is empahasized as opposed to life as we know it. It's also worth pointing out that the latter is based upon a single data point sample of all possible life, that sample consisting of life that

Fw: The Facts of Life and Hard AI

2004-01-18 Thread CMR
The Emergence of Life paper is talking specifically about those sorts of life that can emerge WITHOUT THE ASSISTANCE OF AN ALREADY SMARTER, MORE-ORGANIZED AGENT. That's why that kind of life (natural life) is a truly emergent or (emergent from less-order) system. Well, I'm an agnostic, but