Maybe this will prove that relationship is not bound by how you appear physically, but how you behave, that it does not matter what gender you are, or from what chemical you were made from.
Could this guy be more then one guy sharing a single account? One in the eastern timezone and the other in west. While one is sleeping the other plays..
You claim that "Emergent behaviour IS THE SUM of its parts ".
It might be true in a universe where we human are omnipotent and know all the part and universal laws of physics without any uncertainty.And only in that universe we could prove or disprove your assertion.
But for us in this universe, there is so many unknowns,and limitations that some things are (and probably will always be) greater than their parts.Would you be able to look at a single atom and deduce the whole universe from it? I do not have that much knowledge and confidence and i haven't heard of any who can.Untill then, we are stuck..
"the emergent system described by those laws is not 'greater' than the laws"
Neither did i claim that.What i suggested was that a system could give rise to another system which would be significantly different from the original(having a greater intelligence ). They would (of course )still be under the same law.
My disagreement was that it is possible for an inferior system to give rise to a superior system which has capability not possible for the predecessor.
Somethings are greater than the sum of their parts. eg. emergent behavior, ant society, co-operatives..
Evolution is a process from the simple to complex.HAL may evolve HAL2.
I am studying in Free University of Bolzano. We enjoy good linux support from the IT support. The university computer lab are dual boot with XP and ubuntu. The University wi-fi is accessible to all OS and the IT support helps you configure your laptop if needed. We also have a local ubuntu repository which makes keeping your linux distro up to date so much easier.Student can use any OS to connect to university resource like mail and printers.The Design faculty has mainly macs, and computers in the library uses vista.thats about it..
the bad thing from a programmers point of view is that it is quite difficult to engineer specific swarm behavior.If it was a single machine, it can be programmed effectively using current high level programming language, but how do you program a swarm of microbots to effectively accomplished a task. Note that the power of swarm intelligence is in their emergent behavior. There is not enough study on this part which could facilitate practical use. As someone already wrote, we can only set goals for the swarm and pray..
"How much would you use technology to change yourself if humanity faced extinction?"
I feel that what is essentially "me" is the decision making engine/logic/automata with its associated memory of past events which is it's knowledge base.If i am garanteed that this will remain largly unaltered, then i would feel free to move out of my "biological body" to any medium. I confess that a lot of our pleasure circuit is linked to our biological body so i would miss those..but if it was a matter of survival, well, you have to be alive to have sex right?
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Maybe this will prove that relationship is not bound by how you appear physically, but how you behave, that it does not matter what gender you are, or from what chemical you were made from.
Could this guy be more then one guy sharing a single account? One in the eastern timezone and the other in west. While one is sleeping the other plays..
It might be true in a universe where we human are omnipotent and know all the part and universal laws of physics without any uncertainty.And only in that universe we could prove or disprove your assertion.
But for us in this universe, there is so many unknowns,and limitations that some things are (and probably will always be) greater than their parts.Would you be able to look at a single atom and deduce the whole universe from it? I do not have that much knowledge and confidence and i haven't heard of any who can.Untill then, we are stuck..
"the emergent system described by those laws is not 'greater' than the laws"
Neither did i claim that.What i suggested was that a system could give rise to another system which would be significantly different from the original(having a greater intelligence ). They would (of course )still be under the same law.
My disagreement was that it is possible for an inferior system to give rise to a superior system which has capability not possible for the predecessor.
Somethings are greater than the sum of their parts. eg. emergent behavior, ant society, co-operatives.. Evolution is a process from the simple to complex.HAL may evolve HAL2.
I am studying in Free University of Bolzano. We enjoy good linux support from the IT support. The university computer lab are dual boot with XP and ubuntu. The University wi-fi is accessible to all OS and the IT support helps you configure your laptop if needed. We also have a local ubuntu repository which makes keeping your linux distro up to date so much easier.Student can use any OS to connect to university resource like mail and printers.The Design faculty has mainly macs, and computers in the library uses vista.thats about it..
the bad thing from a programmers point of view is that it is quite difficult to engineer specific swarm behavior.If it was a single machine, it can be programmed effectively using current high level programming language, but how do you program a swarm of microbots to effectively accomplished a task. Note that the power of swarm intelligence is in their emergent behavior. There is not enough study on this part which could facilitate practical use. As someone already wrote, we can only set goals for the swarm and pray..
"How much would you use technology to change yourself if humanity faced extinction?" I feel that what is essentially "me" is the decision making engine/logic/automata with its associated memory of past events which is it's knowledge base.If i am garanteed that this will remain largly unaltered, then i would feel free to move out of my "biological body" to any medium. I confess that a lot of our pleasure circuit is linked to our biological body so i would miss those..but if it was a matter of survival, well, you have to be alive to have sex right?
either directly interpret thoughts accurately or feed information into the brain
That is a call for i/o engineers right ?