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If a quizz is quizzical, what is a test?
Faith
Nay, whatever comes one hour was sunlit and the most high gods may not make boast of any better thing than to have watched that hour as it passed
My Mind is a Ship
Emotions become the Waves
Soul is the Ocean
If a quizz is quizzical, what is a test?
My Mind is a Ship
Emotions become the Waves
Soul is the Ocean
If a quizz is quizzical, what is a test?
My Mind is a Ship
Emotions become the Waves
Soul is the Ocean
If a quizz is quizzical, what is a test?
After much consideration, I find that the view is worth the asphyxiation.
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I may disagree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
My Mind is a Ship
Emotions become the Waves
Soul is the Ocean
If a quizz is quizzical, what is a test?
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
What a wonderful miracle if only we could look through each other's eyes for an instant.
Thoreau
My Mind is a Ship
Emotions become the Waves
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If a quizz is quizzical, what is a test?
Written by: SamboFlux
Doc: very good point. My counter-argument is this: whoever mentioned accidental? Physical evolution in the animal kindom (including ourselves) works on this basis, agreed, but there is nothing accidental about the internet. Biological evolution in the sense we've known up until now has had no intelligent input. Rather, it has been accidental, just as you correctly point out.
However, the internet has had the benefit of intelligent input from humans, meaning it has an instant jump on natural evolution in the form of human understading of learning networks. \
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
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Written by: SamboFlux
If you look on the GNOD music site, it asks for your 3 favourite bands, then gives you a list of other stuff you might like, based on other peoples responses, using exactly this type of network.
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
My Mind is a Ship
Emotions become the Waves
Soul is the Ocean
If a quizz is quizzical, what is a test?
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
My Mind is a Ship
Emotions become the Waves
Soul is the Ocean
If a quizz is quizzical, what is a test?
Written by: SamboFlux
"The queen does not give direct orders and does not tell the ants what to do. Instead, each ant reacts to stimuli in the form of chemical scent from larvae, other ants, intruders, food and build up of waste, and leaves behind a chemical trail, which, in turn, provides a stimulus to other ants. Here each ant is an autonomous unit that reacts depending only on its local environment and the genetically encoded rules for its variety of ant. Despite the lack of centralized decision making, ant colonies exhibit complex behavior and have even been able to demonstrate the ability to solve geometric problems. For example, the ant colonies routinely find the maximum distance from all colony entrances to dispose of dead bodies" (under Emergence on Wikipedia).
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The point is, in systems such as these, the interaction between these agents is what causes the behaviour of the system of a whole. There are a virtually limitless number of other examples. Termite mounds, the stock market arriving at equilibrium, a school of fish being attacked by dolphins forming a near perfect sphere etc.
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Do I sound like a hippy?
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
Written by: Patriarch917
Doc seems to be suggesting that the internet could never spontaneously generate a living organism. My image of the "organism" would be a self replicating peice of code, like a "worm." (It is my understanding that a "virus" spreads through users accidentally passing it along with something else, while a "worm" replicates without the need for user action.)
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Doc's post seems influenced by the principle of biogenesis: the principle that a living organism can only come from another living organism. This is understandable comming from a Doc, but you do not have to buy it. Reply by taking the stand that a large amount of complex stuff that is not an organism itself may give birth to an organism.
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
Give me a lever long enough and a place to stand and I can beat the world into submission.
Written by: Doc Lightning
This is a feature of these large organized systems, that each component is limited in scope of behavior. When each component gets too complex, then there's too much variation in behavior and it averages out to gobbledeygook.
My Mind is a Ship
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Soul is the Ocean
If a quizz is quizzical, what is a test?
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
Nietzsche
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Any thoughts on Stuart Kauffman's work around self-organisation, complexity and chaos stemming from his research on Boolean Networks?
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Using the keywords [global brain theory] we found the following existing topics.