If you create a new life form, do you have the right to destroy it?
Generating a new life form out of DNA is not the same as creating something completely new, so the answer to the above question depends on a more general one, which is:
Never underestimate the military potential of apparently innocent stuff: i recall a note in my old K2000's manual (it's a hardware synth/sampler) which prohibited the use of its dsp chips for military purposes like missile guidance systems.
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And eventually I ALWAYS ask for help, and they always never have the time. I have tried posting on slashdot, but never get responses as well for help.
I think the best place to look when you're stuck are mailing lists of the distribution you're using and related newsgroups. I usually find posts from people having the same problems i have, with helpful followups.
... in a 1991 science-fiction book, called "The Steel Albatross" written by an ex-astronaut (here, a Google search for it).
That Steel Albatross worked like a glider, using ballast to gain velocity or emerge, and was used as a spy sub. You can imagine the sense of deja-vu when i saw the article's photos...
The pilot controlled it using a PC... He had to reboot once, before the story was over, of course:)
I agree: to simulate human-like intelligence one needs to consider istinct and evolution.
I would start with less ambitious projects, like make a simulation of simple cellular automata, put them in a competitive environment and let natural - er, artificial selection refine the behaviour of these artificial life forms. Then, i would increase the computing resources available to the most promising ones and let them battle again for survival.
I think somebody is probably already trying this approach (sourceforge projects, anyone?). IMHO intelligence is a (by)product of evolution, so i think this is the better way to simulate it, as a byproduct of artificial life.
The usual question is, can those simulation create self-aware creatures? My answer: No answer, we can't even define our self-awareness until we reverse engineer our brain (and maybe our "soul" too).
As for hormonal response, you're perfectly right to take our body into account. But i think that simulating hormonal response or feedback from a physical body is not the biggest hurdle, when trying to simulate intelligence.
The record.com article: If the changes don't go ahead, the $561,000 Microsoft was giving to support the projects would no longer be available, he said.
The 80s: people usually had to pay for programming languages.
The 90s: programming languages and environment available for free (evolution).
The New Millennium: people get paid to use a specific programming language (involution... well, this is/. about MS...EVILution?)
Software developers are forced to make the OSX transition because the competition is doing the same in most software categories.
Most Mac users are learning to appreciate the features and look of OSX, and use OS9 because they need to for hardware, software compatibility. As an OS9 user i don't expect new drivers for an OS which will eventually be abandoned, nor i demand support from Apple for issues with old OS9 software. If i needed to change machine and the new ones couldn't boot OS9 i'd settle for an used mac, would it be healthy for Apple sales?
If letting OS9 boot on newer machines has a big cost for Apple, please open the project up as it has been done for darwin (and Mac on Linux, in a different way) and let the community do the work, but please don't limit the possibilities for new Macs.
Smalltalk has been phased out by IBM, and the widget elemnts etc are old.
Squeak is being developed and it's open source: it looks like a toy but its approach to user interaction using "morphs" is interesting.
Cincom (its smalltalk site slashdotted?:) ) is developing version 7 of visualworks smalltalk, and it will surely be out before i finish checking out all the features of version 5:)
The widgets are a little dated indeed, but being a very modular system there may be GUI enhancements to download, try looking around.
I'm impressed with some smalltalk environment features, like being able to modify some code (which gets dynamically recompiled, no "build" command) and having the changes reflected on the application while it is running, being able to inspect and extend system classes (smalltalk applications merely extend the system, in fact), being able to save and restore all classes and variables i'm working with in a single image file or in distinct packages.
I'd like to know if there is a java environment with similar features.
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Another funny spoof of the famous goldfinger scene was made in "Amore all'italiana" (not much on it found in IMDB).
With the memorable quote, from the bad guy: "and now you're going to see how agent 007 becomes two agents 003 and a half".
If you create a new life form, do you have the right to destroy it?
Generating a new life form out of DNA is not the same as creating something completely new, so the answer to the above question depends on a more general one, which is:
Is The Universe GPLed?
Never underestimate the military potential of apparently innocent stuff: i recall a note in my old K2000's manual (it's a hardware synth/sampler) which prohibited the use of its dsp chips for military purposes like missile guidance systems.
And eventually I ALWAYS ask for help, and they always never have the time. I have tried posting on slashdot, but never get responses as well for help.
I think the best place to look when you're stuck are mailing lists of the distribution you're using and related newsgroups. I usually find posts from people having the same problems i have, with helpful followups.
... in a 1991 science-fiction book, called "The Steel Albatross" written by an ex-astronaut (here, a Google search for it).
That Steel Albatross worked like a glider, using ballast to gain velocity or emerge, and was used as a spy sub. You can imagine the sense of deja-vu when i saw the article's photos...
The pilot controlled it using a PC... He had to reboot once, before the story was over, of course
I agree: to simulate human-like intelligence one needs to consider istinct and evolution.
I would start with less ambitious projects, like make a simulation of simple cellular automata, put them in a competitive environment and let natural - er, artificial selection refine the behaviour of these artificial life forms. Then, i would increase the computing resources available to the most promising ones and let them battle again for survival.
I think somebody is probably already trying this approach (sourceforge projects, anyone?).
IMHO intelligence is a (by)product of evolution, so i think this is the better way to simulate it, as a byproduct of artificial life.
The usual question is, can those simulation create self-aware creatures? My answer: No answer, we can't even define our self-awareness until we reverse engineer our brain (and maybe our "soul" too).
As for hormonal response, you're perfectly right to take our body into account. But i think that simulating hormonal response or feedback from a physical body is not the biggest hurdle, when trying to simulate intelligence.
The record.com article: If the changes don't go ahead, the $561,000 Microsoft was giving to support the projects would no longer be available, he said.
The 80s: people usually had to pay for programming languages.
The 90s: programming languages and environment available for free (evolution).
The New Millennium: people get paid to use a specific programming language (involution... well, this is
So even cups got bloated.
OSX has already won.
Software developers are forced to make the OSX transition because the competition is doing the same in most software categories.
Most Mac users are learning to appreciate the features and look of OSX, and use OS9 because they need to for hardware, software compatibility. As an OS9 user i don't expect new drivers for an OS which will eventually be abandoned, nor i demand support from Apple for issues with old OS9 software. If i needed to change machine and the new ones couldn't boot OS9 i'd settle for an used mac, would it be healthy for Apple sales?
If letting OS9 boot on newer machines has a big cost for Apple, please open the project up as it has been done for darwin (and Mac on Linux, in a different way) and let the community do the work, but please don't limit the possibilities for new Macs.
Smalltalk has been phased out by IBM, and the widget elemnts etc are old.
Squeak is being developed and it's open source: it looks like a toy but its approach to user interaction using "morphs" is interesting.
Cincom (its smalltalk site slashdotted? :) ) is developing version 7 of visualworks smalltalk, and it will surely be out before i finish checking out all the features of version 5 :)
The widgets are a little dated indeed, but being a very modular system there may be GUI enhancements to download, try looking around.
I'm impressed with some smalltalk environment features, like being able to modify some code (which gets dynamically recompiled, no "build" command) and having the changes reflected on the application while it is running, being able to inspect and extend system classes (smalltalk applications merely extend the system, in fact), being able to save and restore all classes and variables i'm working with in a single image file or in distinct packages.
I'd like to know if there is a java environment with similar features.