Re: scientists simulate an entire organism in software for the first time ever

2012-08-07 Thread Russell Standish
On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 01:29:50AM -0700, rclough wrote: Perhaps I am wrong, but I have a problem with the concept of artificial intelligence and hence artificial life-- at least according to my understanding of what intelligence is. Artificial Life is an independent field to Artificial

Re: scientists simulate an entire organism in software for the first time ever

2012-08-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 06 Aug 2012, at 10:29, rclough wrote: Perhaps I am wrong, but I have a problem with the concept of artificial intelligence and hence artificial life-- at least according to my understanding of what intelligence is. As I see it, intelligence is the ability to make choices completely

Re: scientists simulate an entire organism in software for the first time ever

2012-08-07 Thread R AM
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 10:29 AM, rclough rclo...@verizon.net wrote: As I see it, intelligence is the ability to make choices completely on one's own. Autonomously. Intelligence involves solving problems and making good choices. Autonomy might be good or bad, depending on the context. But a

Re: scientists simulate an entire organism in software for the first time ever

2012-08-06 Thread rclough
Perhaps I am wrong, but I have a problem with the concept of artificial intelligence and hence artificial life-- at least according to my understanding of what intelligence is. As I see it, intelligence is the ability to make choices completely on one's own. Autonomously. Thus intelligence

Re: scientists simulate an entire organism in software for the first time ever

2012-08-06 Thread meekerdb
On 8/6/2012 1:29 AM, rclough wrote: Perhaps I am wrong, but I have a problem with the concept of artificial intelligence and hence artificial life-- at least according to my understanding of what intelligence is. As I see it, intelligence is the ability to make choices completely on one's own.

Re: scientists simulate an entire organism in software for the first time ever

2012-07-26 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
On 22.07.2012 17:52 Stephen P. King said the following: This is great news for Bruno! ;-) I was interested in the computational complexity factor involved. http://venturebeat.com/2012/07/21/big-leap-in-bio-engineering-scientists-simulate-an-entire-organism-in-software-for-the-first-time-ever/

Re: scientists simulate an entire organism in software for the first time ever

2012-07-26 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
On 22.07.2012 17:52 Stephen P. King said the following: This is great news for Bruno! ;-) I was interested in the computational complexity factor involved. http://venturebeat.com/2012/07/21/big-leap-in-bio-engineering-scientists-simulate-an-entire-organism-in-software-for-the-first-time-ever/

scientists simulate an entire organism in software for the first time ever

2012-07-22 Thread Stephen P. King
This is great news for Bruno! ;-) I was interested in the computational complexity factor involved. http://venturebeat.com/2012/07/21/big-leap-in-bio-engineering-scientists-simulate-an-entire-organism-in-software-for-the-first-time-ever/ -- Onward! Stephen Nature, to be

Re: scientists simulate an entire organism in software for the first time ever

2012-07-22 Thread Russell Standish
The siginficance is that this is one of the open problems of Artificial Life: @Article{Bedau-etal00, author = {Mark A. Bedau and John S. McCaskill and Norman H. Packard and Steen Rasmussen and Chris Adami and David G. Green and Takashi Ikegami and Kinihiko Kaneko and Thomas S. Ray},

RE: scientists simulate an entire organism in software for the first time ever

2012-07-22 Thread William R. Buckley
I, for one, remain skeptical. wrb -Original Message- From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything- l...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Russell Standish Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2012 4:17 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: scientists simulate an entire

Re: scientists simulate an entire organism in software for the first time ever

2012-07-22 Thread meekerdb
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 11:52:18AM -0400, Stephen P. King wrote: This is great news for Bruno! ;-) I was interested in the computational complexity factor involved.

RE: scientists simulate an entire organism in software for the first time ever

2012-07-22 Thread William R. Buckley
I think it is more like, there's a program in your bug. wrb -Original Message- From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything- l...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of meekerdb Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2012 7:41 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: scientists