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From: andrew@dtg.nsc.com (Lord Snooty @ The Giant Poisoned Electric Head       )
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: "Sensor Evolution"
Summary: ribe vibe
Keywords: Artificial Life, sensors
Message-ID: <792@berlioz.nsc.com>
Date: 21 Mar 90 23:13:00 GMT
References: <782@berlioz.nsc.com> <8bn=02lt94=p01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Organization: National Semiconductor, Santa Clara
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In article <8bn=02lt94=p01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>, kp@uts.amdahl.com (Ken Presting) writes: [eloquently, In Praise Of Ribosomes...]

I'll buy the ribosome model (or is that "paradigm" these days?).
When I first understood how the "little buggers" work, I did indeed
"hand it to them". It's much better (no flames please, this is a qualitative
assessment) than a Turing machine, because there exists this "soup" ("pool"
for softies) where everything is accessible, if you wait long enough.

This sort of reminds me (using *my* concept soup) of an Asimov vignettte
where he outlined various galaxy-wide search strategies. One involved travel
to a randomly-picked planet, standing still in a randomly-picked spot....
and waiting for the object+person to turn up. Eventually it did, of course.
Scuze the digressive analogy.

This is the way of the Nature Computer (read ribosome). It's fully parallel
with indeterminate but estimable (given solute densities) delays and also
it's associative.

My point is this: it is a very beautiful architecture, but no-one builds it;
not even Neural Nets are *that* parallel.
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