Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #05229
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Terry Newton wtnewton@nc5.infi.net
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 10:09:20
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Chaotic controllers (was Something funny with the 1382)
At 11:02 AM 7/10/99 +0200, Steven Bolt wrote:
>On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Bob Shannon wrote:
>> 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.
>
>Emulated Nv's can do just that, if I understood Terry's postings
>correctly.
Actually, Nv's (emulated or not) don't do it, it's the -wiring-
between the Nv's that must change in response to the environment.
Gigabytes have been written on this subject, search for evolve robot
or for a real kick try evolve hardware - goes way beyond anything
I'm messing with, but interesting things happen when chaotic nets
are coupled to a suitable horse and the connections are coupled to
a score based on the environment. It can't do all the far-out
fancy stuff outlined in the GA papers but hey it's got attitude...
Terry Newton
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