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...
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evansheadinfo@...
evansheadinfo
May 9, 2002 12:41 pm
... unrealbots...
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nuke48386
May 11, 2002 2:57 am
Hi all, First, Definitions of "life" and "intelligence". The debate, as Robomaniac pointed out, on whether or not viruses are 'alive', and what constitutes...
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nuke48386
May 15, 2002 12:56 am
Slowly I crept, inch by inch... Coming soon, BioRants (tm)! Instead of trying to incorporate them into my GeoCities website(mostly because Pagebuilder text...
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nuke48386
May 20, 2002 2:13 am
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...
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nuke48386
May 31, 2002 2:18 am
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! ...
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Ori
beamrobotician
May 31, 2002 3:15 am
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...
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Thomas Pilgaard Nielsen
ascii_2001
May 31, 2002 8:03 am
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...
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nuke48386
Jun 3, 2002 3:30 am
... <<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...
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Your Friendly Hogfather
ztfreep
Jun 4, 2002 12:35 am
... 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...
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Frankendaddy
Jun 8, 2002 4:23 am
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...
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nuke48386
Jun 9, 2002 12:33 am
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...
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Joel Hirtle
netsquash35
Jun 9, 2002 3:01 pm
I have found some of theses same problems when I build bicycles at work. The bicycle will work perfectly for me in the stock room when I am testing it out but...
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nuke48386
Jun 16, 2002 2:21 am
Greetings, sapients. A little online book thumpin' for ya, to stimulate the lobes and a little discourse: Definitions of intelligence 1. capacity for learning,...
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small-gods@yahoogroup...
Jun 16, 2002 2:22 am
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the small-gods group. File : /intell.txt ...
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Thomas Pilgaard Nielsen
ascii_2001
Jun 16, 2002 10:55 am
In short - very, very short I can't agree to any of the proposed definitions of intelligence. To sum up the reason I'll refer to Gregory Bateson's "Steps to an...
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nuke48386
Jun 16, 2002 6:52 pm
Very true, the qoute about the maps. In some of the layman's quantum physics books I've been reading, they use a similar amp analogy regarding the mathematical...
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nuke48386
Jul 4, 2002 12:26 am
It occurs to me that more "intelligent" creatures are percieved to be, the more a) social grouping they have b) 'risks' they take c) dense their communication...
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Ben Hitchcock
nebbian
Jul 4, 2002 1:25 am
Hi, I don't agree. I don't think that you can look at a group of organisms, and say immediately based on their social structure how intelligent the organisms...
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nuke48386
Jul 4, 2002 6:03 am
(Sorry Ben, I'm too lazy to "select all" and then "delete" in replies) First, the rebuttal: The use of social groupings and complexity thereof wasn't meant to...
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nuke48386
Jul 10, 2002 4:08 am
After re-reading Ben's post, I've come to believe in (at least from my perspective) one defining attribute of intelligence: synthesis. Any organism that can...
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nebbian
Jul 12, 2002 1:50 am
Hi, ... Agreed! In fact, I think that the algorithm I put forward: "Make a good model, test the model against the environment, use the model to predict the...
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nuke48386
Jul 19, 2002 1:38 am
After some too-hard thinking, I realized that my 'model' of the concept of 'model' was wrong...I hear the word 'model' and I think of Lionel trains, or an...
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ztfreep
Jul 30, 2002 6:04 pm
Manchiald is now on this list (and beam-elite so you might see this note twice). We'll see how it goes, eh? Z...
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John A. deVries II
ztfreep
Nov 1, 2002 8:49 pm
Hi all you people, This message is actually a device, a mind virus. I don't know how many of you are aware of memes, I wonder how many of you will figure it...
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Alex Roy
sandroid2000
Nov 2, 2002 12:14 am
i'm always one to com[pletely blast human classification, the only place it is useful is when you are trying to sort things so you can find them easier and has...
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Wilf Rigter
wrigter@...
Nov 2, 2002 6:14 am
I'M WILF! I like Terry Prachett very much and Small Gods is a great yarn about the rise and fall of fantastic imaginary religious deities which illuminates our...
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Ori
ori_barbut
Nov 24, 2002 4:11 am
Adaptive walkers are something that has been greatly emphasized in BEAM. Mark's papers mention multiple gaits, which gets people very exited, but then leads to...
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julian plante
juju1414
Nov 24, 2002 2:32 pm
Ori, Have you tried a microcore with selectable branches? You could make several different branches, each with different timing. This way, if a tactile ...
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Ori
ori_barbut
Nov 24, 2002 2:52 pm
Hmmm, could you draw a sketch of what you mean? Doesn't have to be too complicated (doesn't need to be a schematic, perhaps just circles that represent Nvs). ...
