Category: alife
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Self-explaining Game of Life?
A question sent to the everything-list. https://groups.google.com/d/topic/everything-list/EjV8Bsq9_wU/discussion I have listened to Sean Carroll’s Big Picture. His world view is actually similar to the Game of Life, well, the rules are a bit more complicated. Below is the link to the equation that he proposes. Carroll claims that his equation describes human beings as well. He…
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Artificial Intelligence and Christian Salvation
From Ilia Delio, Artificial Intelligence and Christian Salvation: Compatibility or Competition?, New Theology Review, November 2003. http://newtheologyreview.com/index.php/ntr/article/view/685 p. 45 “Antje Jackelén furthers the religious argument by suggesting that A.I. technology has messianic dimensions. She writes: “When John the Baptist was in prison and heard what Jesus was doing, he sent his disciples to ask, “Are…
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Consciousness in Cognitive Architectures
Below there are quotes from and small comments to Carlos Hernández, Ricardo Sanz and Ignacio López Consciosusness in Cognitive Architectures A Principled Analysis of RCS, Soar and ACT-R p. 13 “A possible path to the solution of the increasing control software complexity is to extend the adaptation mechanism from the core controller to the whole…
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Simulation Hypothesis and Simulation Technology
The text has been inspired by the discussion “Turing Machine” on the everything list: http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list/t/40e45a536974609d Many people believe nowadays that the level of scientific knowledge allows us to conclude that everything including the whole universe could be simulated. Some of the them go further and say that the universe that we know is actually simulation…
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The Universality of Life
Some citations from Christian De Duve, Vital Dust 1995. Chapter 13, The Universality of Life In the introduction to this book, I argued on theoretical grounds – remember the thirteen spades – that the ermergance of life must have involved a very large number of steps, most of which had a high probability of occuring under…
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Stephen Wolfram’s Computational Irreducibility
Stephen Wolfram Some Modern Perspectives on the Quest for Ultimate Knowledge https://www.stephenwolfram.com/publications/some-modern-perspectives-quest-ultimate-knowledge/ A good overview about computational irreducibility and how it could affect our quest for ultimate knowledge. Just one example from the paper. Let us imagine that the Universe is governed by just a few simple rules and they are completely determenistic. Yet, as they represent…