Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #11493
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Thomas Pilgaard ascii@hum.auc.dk
Date: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 12:14 PM
Subject: RE: Self-Awareness/Conciousness
theres a saying "If it ain't broke don't fix it" it doesn't matter if the
robots think as long as it works. you'll just drive yourself crazy trying
to figure it out. a better question would be how do we think. we're just a
group of inorganic atoms forming cells grouped together. we think about our
self as 1 thing despite being thousands of cells.
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11494 Tue, 7 Mar 2000 22:02:38 EST [alt-beam] Re: old SE beam@sgiblab.sgi.com Bumper314@aol.com In a message dated 3/7/00 7:59:05 PM Mountain Standard Time, ace27@icdc.com
writes:
> From tilden? My bet is they are not SEs at all, rather bicores, with LED
> indicators.
Oh no, I'm sure they are SEs.
steve
11495 Tue, 7 Mar 2000 19:03:21 -0800 (PST) [alt-beam] Silicon Diodes BEAM List Daniel Grace Silicon Diodes produce an electrical current when
exposed to sunlight, am I right in that? How much
current/voltage? Does it depend on the manufacturer? I
can find silicon diodes just fine, but none specify
the current or voltage developed in sunlight.
~Daniel
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11496 Tuesday, March 07, 2000 11:20 AM Re: Was lobster, now bees beam@sgiblab.sgi.com Bruce Robinson
>John Bachman wrote:
>>
>> ... If one of the bot functions is to find food and it succeeds, is
>> it not inconcievable for it to communicate the location to other
>> bots? Once a frame of reference is established (no trivial task)
>> then instructions appropriate to the bots movement mechanisms could
>> be communicated from one to another.
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>i think a better idea would be to use a light source. when the bot
recieved more energy the bot light would increase and the second bot might
know it recieved energy, but it would several problems.
1. the 2nd bot would have to look at the light constantly
2.making sure the light didn't blind the 2nd bot
3.the 2nd bot might not know what a brighter light means
but using sound would have problems too
1. they would have to develope a language that alone would take FOREVER and
they aren't smart enough. compare the bot to you, we're the only animal
with a language. after seeing how maby thousands of nurons (even as smart
as we are we can barely talk to each other) we have compare the bot to a
watch, and a bug
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