Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #01953
To: hellas@inch.com
From: Paul Koukos hellas@inch.com
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 20:50:45 -0500
Subject: JESUS VIRUS
JESUS VIRUS
If you receive an email titled "It Takes Guts to Say 'Jesus'" DO NOT
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Forward this letter out to as many people as you can. This is a new,
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This information was announced yesterday morning from IBM; please share
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Once again, pass this along to EVERYONE in your address book so that
this may be stopped.
Paul Koukos
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From the new author: John Dailey
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1954 Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:12:45 +0200 (CEST) [alt-beam] Re: Socer bots/ Hive behaviour Dennison Steven Bolt On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Dennison wrote:
> I would agree. I had a sneaky suspicion about this all along, but having
> built a prototype BEAM soccer bot, the obvious only becomes more so. Ideas
> about mounting IR tags into the ball, and on the playing feild are all nice
> ideas. But they defeat the point. You have to modify only the robot's
> behaviors. You can't go and modify the environment so that the ENVIRONMENT
> provokes the desired behavior from the robot.
Actually, that's exactly what happens in nature. There is a strong
and deterministic connection between the environment and behavior
of animals and even humans. The usual example is the ant - a
relatively simple piece of biological machinery, which follows
something like a dozen fixed rules. Put it in a simple environment
- like a Robot Jurassic Parc - and what it does looks no more
intelligent, capable or complex than the behaviour of today's
robots. But look at what happens when you put that ant in the
`real' world! All of a sudden its actions acquire purpose and
meaning. Now where did that come from?
It's not supplied by the ant's brain. Purpose and meaning happen
because the ant and its environment evolved together, into a single
complex entity, which doesn't work when you take it apart.
So if you want robots to do something interesting, you will usually
have to engineer the environment to match their limited and
different sensors. Nothing to be ashamed of.
Best,
Steve
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