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From: lorien@dartvax.UUCP (Lorien Y. Pratt)
Newsgroups: net.cog-eng,net.ai
Subject: Cellular Automata -- Request for pointers
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Date: Wed, 28-Mar-84 15:30:21 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 28 15:30:21 1984
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I was fascinated by the description of "cellular automata" in last
month's Computer Recreations section of Scientific American.  The mass
of interacting parallel processes that are described there seem
singularly appropriate for the simulation of phenomona of interest to
AI workers.  With complex enough rules of interaction between elements
it seems one could simulate neurons in the brain or the evolutionary
process.  I'm aware, from a course I took long ago in Cognitive
Psychology, that psychologists use dynamically interacting models of
this sort.

  This note is to request pointers to any research that's currently
being done in this area, specifically as it relates to AI.

Thanks in advance,

      --Lorien Y. Pratt
	Dartmouth College Library
	Hanover, NH  03755

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