Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #05153
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: JVernonM@aol.com
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 20:35:45 EDT
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: What does purposeful mean, anyway?
In a message dated 7/8/99 8:08:07 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
beamtastic@yahoo.com writes:
> 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..
>
And what does this have to do with me. The bot has to perform a function for
man or it is useless. It won't be built, and no one will care. Robots, by
definition must serve a purpose to man. Tilden says you can get there by
making them wild first. Hell of a lot of work to end up back on
track...eventually.
Jim
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