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From: fnwlr1@acad3.alaska.edu (RUTHERFORD WALTER L)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: computer life?
Keywords: Survival, instincts
Message-ID: <1991Mar16.202354.18065@ims.alaska.edu>
Date: 16 Mar 91 20:23:54 GMT
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In article <1991Mar15.180803.5672@bony1.bony.com>, richieb@bony1.bony.com (Richard Bielak) writes...
> 
>If life was designed by some being, I would hardly call him omnipotent
>or supernatural. To me it looks like life is one great hack! To
>quote George Carlin: everything that lives, dies!
> 
>I think there is a serious problem in the design. :-)
> 
>....richie


But that is the mechanism which drives the self improvement process.
Would we have modern buildings if every cave, lean-to, hut, cabin, etc...
ever built were required to exist forever?  How about every pack animal,
travois, sled, cart, wagon, chariot, coach, automobile? Like the old joke
says: "You can't have everything... Where would you put it?"   ;-)

P.S.  This isn't an invite for a non-AI philosophy discussion.  HoKay?


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