On 10/7/07, J Storrs Hall, PhD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [rest of post and other recent ones agreed with]
> It remains to be seen whether replicating Life patterns could evolve to become > intelligent. No formal proof, but informally: definitely no. Our universe has all sorts of special properties that make intelligence adaptive, that Conway's Life doesn't have. Intelligence would be baggage in that universe; best survivors will be bacterialike fast self-replicators (maybe simpler than bacteria for all I know: it might turn out to be optimal to ditch general assembler capability). ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=50894984-7e6166
