Jim, Have you had much chance yet to play with the BIO-Bugs? I haven't seen them here in Darwin, Oz, but that doesn't mean that they haven't been either...
Hello All- I've browsed the messages which Yahoo has allowed me too, and joined the list... I see its not all that active but thats just fine with me. I may...
Hello all, I have been provided with a couple of samples of a custom chip designed by another robotics guy that I have had some good online conversations with....
Not sure if this list is still active, so here's another message in a bottle. I've been re-reading Braintenberg's wonderful _Vehicles_ and was stricken again...
Creating communities of cooperating bots for mutual benefit is a currently popular area of research. But I feel that all this hand wringing over what might be...
Hello, Allow me to address a misconception regarding artificial life forms, as well as life forms in general. Most think of "living" as if it were "thinking";,...
Ok, it didn't send. Let me try again. Ori ... From: Ori To: small-gods@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 8:08 PM Subject: Re: [small-gods] Re:...
... Um, this group is moderated so I actually have to approve of all of the messages, one by one -- this is to prevent the spam we had a while back. Sometimes...
<tangent> I would really like this list to come back to life... It would be great if beam@ would be lively, but it seems that list is not much interested in ...
... Tilden's line is that we humans are the means by which this is done. See: http://www.nis.lanl.gov/projects/robot/html/philosophy.html but you can...
Trying to decide the difference between a living and a non-living thing is maybe easier than defining the difference between an intelligent (self aware might...
... and also ... like we're ... No, sorry I can't agree there. It is not an intrinsic part of a photovore that it 'protects' itself - and it doesn't even...
Well what would be suicide for a popper? Going somewhere dark. It protects its existence by staying in bright areas. Also, what about photopoppers with ...
Droimakr, The file listed above apparently has a virus, at least that is what Trend Anti-Virus has told me. I though that since you put it there you may like...
I downloaded the "dirty" file -- Symantec Norton Anti-Virus immediately told me about the problem & cleaned the "virus" (probably one of those visual-basic...
... Thanks Zoz ans sorry to anyone that had a problem. I was not aware of nor did my anti-virus detect a virus. Hope it hasn't created any difficulties....
Zoz, Thanks, I wasn't sure what had happened, and thought it best to be over-cautious than not. Adam. -- Technology is a constant battle between manufacturers...
Aloha, small-gods! Don't let the nuke48386 fool you, all the other million or so Star Wars nerds on Yahoo had already used up TarkinXXXX, but I still sign my...
Hi all, First, Definitions of "life" and "intelligence". The debate, as Robomaniac pointed out, on whether or not viruses are 'alive', and what constitutes...
Slowly I crept, inch by inch... Coming soon, BioRants (tm)! Instead of trying to incorporate them into my GeoCities website(mostly because Pagebuilder text...
For those who are interested, the BioRants are ready. Sort of. I have decided to make a Newsletter-style Group named BioRants, as the complexity and readablity...
Hulllooo out there.... Is anybody still interested in this list? I've noticed the membership #'s dropping almost daily, and I've posted 80% of May's messages! ...
Hey, John's a friendly guy. : ) If I'm not mistaken, his latest plan is the merging of the lists to his Discus page, the BEAM Heretics bulletin boards. Hope...
One thing that keeps me from posting on this list is that the topics we discuss almost always are very time-consuming to discuss. That is the train of thought...
... <<Sometimes he signs his posts as 'Your Unfriendly Hogfather'. Just an observation, no slight towards his character intended. God is in the details, and so...
... at least as far as I'm concerned. In fact, I -do- try to approach the mail groups I "own" (ha! the community of any group is the true owner!) in as...
For the last ten or twelve years, I've been involved in one way or another with building and repairing industrial systems. From massive 3000 Ton (that's...
I'll not cry ,"kill the infidel", but I must protest a little. Your observations of machines working better in your presence, and the differences of...
