Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #05179
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Steven Bolt sbolt@xs4all.nl
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1999 11:45:55 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Something funny with the 1382 voltage triggers?
On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Bob Shannon wrote:
[ Emergent behaviours ]
> > The idea is to make such behaviours happen by design rather than
> > accident, but I haven't the foggiest how that might be achieved.
> > And everybody else appears to be just as much in the dark, so far.
>
> Actually the criteria for a system to exhibit emergent behaviors is fairly
> easy to define. If you study chaos theory, and chaos producing circuits
> you will find that as soon as we have 3 (or more) variables in a non-linear
> system, chaos is a given and emergent behaviors are produced.
I'm aware of that, but afaik it so far doesn't translate to `bots
with increased performance, except by accident.
---8<---
> I have translated some of these principles into a scalable
> microcore/bicore array that drives my 'Motion' contest entery.
> It works.
>
> I'll be putting it on-line quite soon.
Scalable in what way? You sound almost like Mark T. Papers Real
Soon Now :)
Best,
Steve
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