Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #05160
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: JVernonM@aol.com
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 20:48:33 EDT
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: What does purposeful mean, anyway?
In a message dated 7/8/99 8:15:34 PM Eastern Daylight Time, bshannon@tiac.net
writes:
> Jim, have you read Braitenberg yet?
I have to admit that I scanned the papers online. But I haven't given it a
full read.
> Even a application like a solar powed, automatic nightlight brings a new
> dimention
> of utility to a BEAM design, and transforms it into something more.
Hmmmmm....
> NowI have a good reason to care for it, because it does something for me
too.
> It
> enters a symbiotic relationship for better survivability. Hardly wild
> though.
Exactly! Importance through a relationship. No relationship, no importance.
My dog is exactly the same, and it IS alive.
Jim
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