[FRIAM] [Vo]:failures of H-Ni cold fusion tests with water cooling -- possible heat and O2 and H2 release via electrolysis by up to 220 V AC from shorts and deposited metals with danger of shocks and

2011-02-05 Thread Rich Murray
[Vo]:failures of H-Ni cold fusion tests with water cooling -- possible heat and O2 and H2 release via electrolysis by up to 220 V AC from shorts and deposited metals with danger of shocks and explosions: Rich Murray 2011.02.05 fromRich Murray rmfor...@gmail.com reply-to

[FRIAM] A question for your Roboteers out there

2011-02-05 Thread Nicholas Thompson
At what point in the complexity of a robot (or any other control system) does it begin to seem useful to parse input into information about the system itself and information about other things? Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University

Re: [FRIAM] Daphnia's jeans

2011-02-05 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
Jochen Fromm What would be needed to reconstruct a mind? I had to respond, I suspect a kind of Koan content to the question. Reconstruct or Construct?? Since the latter does not seem to have occurred historically I am not sure the former is possible at this time. Then I bumped into one of

Re: [FRIAM] A question for your Roboteers out there

2011-02-05 Thread lrudolph
On 5 Feb 2011 at 12:29, Nicholas Thompson wrote: At what point in the complexity of a robot (or any other control system) does it begin to seem useful to parse input into information about the system itself and information about other things? From the beginning, it's useful to parse input

Re: [FRIAM] Reconstructing Minds and Soul Dust (was: Daphnia's jeans)

2011-02-05 Thread Jochen Fromm
As Eric said I should be quiet because this is not my area, but I cannot resist :-) I think these questions are interesting. Can we (re-)construct minds from different parts or pieces ? Is there a blueprint for a soul (whatever that is)? If genes construct bodies, then maybe memes construct

Re: [FRIAM] A question for your Roboteers out there

2011-02-05 Thread Nicholas Thompson
No you haven't and I wish you would! -Original Message- From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of lrudo...@meganet.net Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2011 1:54 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] A question for

Re: [FRIAM] A question for your Roboteers out there

2011-02-05 Thread Alfredo Covaleda
You'll be delighted to attend this conference: Call for Papers - Call for Tutorials and Special Sessions IEEE CONFERENCE ON DEVELOPMENT AND LEARNING, AND EPIGENETIC ROBOTICS IEEE ICDL-EPIROB 2011 Frankfurt am Main, Germany August 24-27, 2011 www.icdl-epirob.org Conference description The past

Re: [FRIAM] A question for your Roboteers out there

2011-02-05 Thread Nicholas Thompson
What a kind offer! However, I can’t wait. Could you forward the original question to anyone you think it might interest? ==è At what point in the complexity of a robot (or any other control system) does it begin to seem useful to parse input into “information about the system itself” and