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From: karln@uunet.uu.net
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Discover magazine's "Invasion of the Insect Robots"
Message-ID: <1991Mar27.191318.7340@uunet.uu.net>
Date: 27 Mar 91 19:13:18 GMT
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In article <1991Mar25.173925.21895@ddsw1.MCS.COM> zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Sameer Parekh) writes:
>In article <1991Mar19.225113.15536@uunet.uu.net> karln@karln.UUCP () writes:
>>In article <1991Mar17.063506.28939@ddsw1.MCS.COM> zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Sameer Parekh) writes:
>> 
>>	I do not think that is true. An artificial cow could be 'programed'
>>to eat more at the right time to produce more meat come market time. An artificial
>>cow might be able to have two calves.
>	
>	The idea of artificial cow, I had thought, was a robotic being
>with the intelligence of a cow.  Making an artificial cow that
>is EDIBLE, in my belief, would be tougher than designing a human-level
>intelligence.
>

True. I was thinking that an artificial cow would be a cow with a brain
transplant. Perhaps in the future putting the desired `behavior patterns`
into a cow via `brain transplant' would be better than trying to breed 
this `behavior pattern` into cows.

  If this ever were the case the small Neural Net to handle walking and
eating could be very usefull.

  Really just some way out there sort of thoughts. My appologies for seeming
nasty.


BTW, I have recieved the program from Pat and Greg Williams that models
the insect behavior of Dr. Beers insects. Sure enough the insects walk around
and are show a certain ummunity to neural damage or removed without failing
completely.

  However, the bugs come with the neural nets already programmed. The bugs
come knowing how to walk.

  I was sort of hopeing to see these bugs flounder around a bit then
eventually learn to walk. Does anybody have any suggestions on how I 
should set about setting this up. Is this set of programs capable of it?
any comments. anybody else have this program?

karl nicholas

karln!karln@uunet.uu.net