Re: Let There Be Something

From: Quentin Anciaux <quentin.anciaux.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 00:18:01 +0100

Hi Russel,

Le Jeudi 03 Novembre 2005 22:11, Russell Standish a écrit :

>
> Even then, there is still a loophole. I suspect that 3D environment
> are far more likely to evolve the complex structures needed for
> consciousness, so that conscious GoL observers are indeed a rare
> thing. I don't know if this is the case or not, but if true it would
> make a GoL example irrelevant. More interesting is to look at some 3D
> CA rules that appear to support universal computation - Andy Wuensche
> had a paper on this in last year's ALife in Boston. No arXiv ref I'm
> afraid, but you could perhaps email him for an eprint...
>
> Cheers


But 3D, 2D CA is of no relevance... the way we see the computation through the
gol as nothing in common with how hypothetical living being inside the gol
would perceive their environment.

Quentin
Received on Thu Nov 03 2005 - 18:20:38 PST