Hi Pall It would be logical to me that your program respond its own source code. It can be seen as a way to express itself, and probably be misunderstood, but also to survive by duplicating itself. Actually, I still don't really get why it just "recreates" itself in the end as a way to survive, because a better survival method would be to spread like a virus. I think duplication and awareness of its multiplicity could bring good perspectives to your experiment, while still keeping the "simple" essence approach.
++++++++ Clément On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:36 PM, Pall Thayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (ps. I'm now posting these to both Rhizome and Netbehaviour. My > apologies to anyone who receives them twice.) > > The latest revision to exist.pl has opened a whole new can of beans. > Since it is now capable of receiving communication from other > processes it will inevitably have to respond and that's the tricky > part. How does a process that is just beginning to experiment with an > awareness of anything at all, respond to anything at all? It makes no > attempt to understand the message being conveyed or even who it's > coming from. It would be great to get some feedback on this. Of > course, my first inclination is to just have it respond to anything > with a full dump of its entire "awareness". Well, no. My first > inclination was to have it respond to anything by outputting the full > path to the file (its "existence") and its process ID (its "state of > being") but when you think about it, there's really nothing to > indicate to exist.pl that those two bits of information would mean > anything to anyone else. > > Pall > > -- > ***************************** > Pall Thayer > artist > http://www.this.is/pallit > ***************************** > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
