Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #05209
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Bob Shannon bshannon@tiac.net
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 17:56:28 -0400
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Chaotic controllers (was Something funny with the 1382)
Steven Bolt wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Bob Shannon wrote:
>
> > What I've done is to use the chaotic control systems in geometric
> > arangements that match the physical body of the device. By
> > selecting the chaotic attractor and geometery
> > is fairly simple to get controlled behaviors.
> >
> > At least with the geometeries I've tested so far, which is very few.
>
> Not intended as a `cheap shot', but that does sound a bit
> Tildenesque. Nothing to do but wait for the details, and hope you
> are on to something.
No need to wait, I'm perfectly willing to discuss the details now.
> > Scalable in that higher ordered physical geometeries (of motive
> > drivers) also extend the chaotic control circuitry without
> > coherency problems seen in larger Nv systems.
>
> Coherency is not the only and perhaps not the most important
> problem of large Nv-like systems. Getting them to do something
> useful, which can't be done cheaper and simpler in another way,
> seems (to me) more difficult.
Yes, I'm being told by a long-haired math expert that its not a solvable
problem.
A chaotic system with feedback to its environment forms an 'irreducable'
system.
We will not design, nor evolve higher leveled controllers this way.
Biological
neurons get around this problem by having the ability to change their
dendritic connections
dynamically, something Nv's can never do.
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