Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Distributed Agents and Alan Kay's Universal Interface Language

[Marcus G. Daniels]

Victoria Hughes wrote:
So our models, in /whatever/ field, will ultimately ping on that 
neurological level. Makes sense to work with that presupposition, 
since in the end we return to it.

A question of technology?

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn3523-synapse-chip-taps-into-brain-chemistry.html


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[FRIAM] Fwd: Distributed Agents and Alan Kay's Universal Interface Language

[Victoria Hughes]

	Hey, as IB, I would like to point out that biological models make  
sense because we are unavoidably biological in design, thus our  
systems will be. All our systems: interpretive, expressive,  
diagnostic, experimental. No matter how far we think we may evolve  
past that, we cannot. We just think about it, with our biological  
brains. We are a self-referential species, for better or worse.
	So our models, in whatever field, will ultimately ping on that  
neurological level. Makes sense to work with that presupposition,  
since in the end we return to it.

Tory


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From: "Marcus G. Daniels" 
Date: May 25, 2009 11:04:39 AM MDT
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group >
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Distributed Agents and Alan Kay's Universal  
Interface Language
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Stephen Guerin wrote:
Ah, by control over its own execution, I meant "execution" as  
thread of computation.
Yeah, I realize the word was overloaded..  See my other e-mail on  
not being able to predictably get resources.  (Scheduling a thread  
is does not imply actually commencing execution.)


Here I was just getting Doug to confront his prejudice about garbage  
collectors.  ;-)
I suspect we might adopt more of an cellular apotosis model  where agents remove themselves unless they constantly receieve a  
keep-alive-message from other agents. There's also the idea that  
there should be a mechanism where agents will migrate away from the  
edge of the network where users are to lower cost, high latency  
parts of the network when they are less in demand - a kind of cold  
storage.
Cool.  I think biological approaches to resilience and system  
optimization are intriguing..


Marcus


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