Re: [FRIAM] What is an agent [was: Philosophy and Science}

2023-07-15 Thread David Eric Smith
Thank you Dave, Yes, one of the fourteeners I should climb, and before I get too old to do it. Eric > On Jul 16, 2023, at 3:51 AM, Prof David West wrote: > > If you have not read it — I highly recommend The Tree of Knowledge by > Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela. Self organization

Re: [FRIAM] What is an agent [was: Philosophy and Science}

2023-07-15 Thread Frank Wimberly
Eric, I hadn't seen your mail until David quoted it. What you say reminds me of a project I worked on for a couple of years in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie. Under the global title of Factory of the Future I coordinated a project to automate and optimize a fluorescent lamp factory. There

Re: [FRIAM] What is an agent [was: Philosophy and Science}

2023-07-15 Thread Prof David West
If you have not read it — I highly recommend The Tree of Knowledge by Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela. Self organization from simple to complex via a single mechanism. On Fri, Jul 14, 2023, at 7:30 PM, David Eric Smith wrote: > I have had a version of this problem for several years,