Re: virus: Self-awareness Software and Reputing
Tadeusz Niwinski (tad@teta.ai)
Fri, 07 Mar 1997 21:17:29 -0800
Alex wrote:
>Tadeusz Niwinski wrote:
>> If self-awareness is software (and I think it is) then we should be able to
>> make a computer program which would run it.
>
>Absolutely. Actually, self-awareness can be said to already have been
>implimented if you look into robotic systems, especially automated
>battlefield systems, that keep track of their physical/operational
>stati. They even are `aware' of themselves as `battlefield assets' and
>autonomous units, which would seem to overcome at least one class of
>objections to self-awareness as defined by the masses.
What's the algorithm?
Life/evolution algorithm is:
1) Generate random "genes"
2) Grow them
3) Select the best
4) Repute (reproduce with mutations) / Breed (?)
5) Go to 2
What algorithm can be used to model self-awareness?
Regards, Tadeusz (Tad) Niwinski from planet TeTa
tad@teta.ai http://www.teta.ai (604) 985-4159