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- From: skroger@zeus.calpoly.edu (Seth L. Kroger)
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: Re: Information in a system.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.214744.120595@zeus.calpoly.edu>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 21:47:44 GMT
- References: <1992Nov14.160720@IASTATE.EDU> <9LPDuB14w165w@kalki33>
- Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
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- kalki33!system@lakes.trenton.sc.us writes:
- >kv07@IASTATE.EDU (Warren Vonroeschlaub) writes:
- >> Kalki,
- >> Right now I am running a computer program at home. It generated 100
- >> creatures. Each has two wheels and two sensors for detecting "food". Using
- >> tiny nural net as a brain, the information from the sensors is sent to the
- >> wheels.
- >
- >[lot of stuff describing the "creatures"]
- >
- >> Now here is the question: Obviously the creatures have become more
- >> sophisticated at locating food. They have generated rules, information if yo
- >> will, on how to locate it. Now, where did that information come from?
- >>
- >> Remember, my initial state was completely random, so it didn't come from
- >> there. I have no idea what the proper neural inputs are for locating food, s
- >> didn't put them there. The program alters the creatures in a completely rand
- >> manner, so it didn't add any information to the system. Where did it come
- >> from?
- >
- >You must have the first computer in history to generate "completely"
- >random numbers! And the first program in history that wasn't created by
- >a programmer! And the first computer to ever assemble itself! And the
- >first source of electric power to just hook itself up to your house and
- >start generating 60hz, 117 VAC!
-
- Oh, and this random number generator has some mysterious knowledge to
- completely change a program's behavior on it's own. And I suppose a dice
- roll isn't completely random because an intelligent creature made them and
- another threw them too.
-
- >Kalki "My brain is not the boss" Dasa
-
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- | Seth Kroger "If God made us in His image we |
- | skroger@pan.calpoly.edu have certianly returned the |
- | Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo compliment." -Voltaire |
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