Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #05147
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Darrell Johnson beamtastic@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 16:49:14 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: What does purposeful mean, anyway?
--- JVernonM@aol.com wrote:
> I could
> also make the example of gnats. They survive, but I
> don't think you can ride
> them. But we're talking about horses, right?
> Jim
>
How about the example of worker bees. Thier purpose? Go get food, and
bring it back. (at the most base level)
they serve this purpose and survive while doing it. The queen does not
control thier every move while the workers are en route to get food and
bring it back. They do it on thier own..
This can be paralleled by a surviving robot..
human(queen) tells robot(worker) "go get soil samples from this place
and bring them back"
robot goes out to accomplish this task while surving...
that's the purpose..
darrell
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