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From: mwtilden@math.uwaterloo.ca (Mark W. Tilden)
Subject: Re: Alife article in Technology Review
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Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 03:13:17 GMT
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In article <3156c3b1.3050336@news.tezcat.com>,
Jacob Galley <jgalley@tezcat.com> wrote:
>
>"The simple truth of the matter remains that because alife is based on the
>interpretation of computer simulations, it purports to be a science without
>hard facts.  Indeed, it may be excluding exactly those factors that would make
>complex behavior fathomable, as the real-world simulations of Mataric and
>Rebec suggest.  If alifers are serious about mainstream acceptance, the will
>have to find a way to link up with material reality.  Otherwise their efforts
>will always suffer charges of subjectivity and irreproducibility."
Technology Review_, Robert J. Crawford. Apr. 96..

So, dawn of the roboticist, or do we sit around and wait for Windows (tm) to
come out with a reality option?

Is all.

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