Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #05186
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: "George Rix" rix.g@bmts.com
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 07:17:50 -0400
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: What does purposeful mean, anyway?
Alternately it could be said that the entire thing, queen and all, is one
robot. It wants to survive, so whatever brain it has, be it BEAM,
microprocessor or other, tells the other parts of it to go get food
(energy), and bring it back.
Just my piece of the puzzle,
Signing off,
Rob Rix
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'I guess I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue' - from Airplane
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>From: Darrell Johnson
>To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
>Subject: Re: What does purposeful mean, anyway?
>Date: Thu, Jul 8, 1999, 7:49 PM
>
> 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..
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