Re: Dynamical Hierarchies (- Artificial Life)

[Jerry Zhu <***>]

John, 

I am interested in reading Salthen's papers if you can
send them to me directly.

Thanks

Jerry

--- John M <***> wrote:

> ,
> Tim, the AL-Dyn Hierarchy angle (or vice versa) may
> be
> interesting. I appreciate your statement:
> > It appears to me that "dynamical hierarchies" is
> > essentially an approach rooted in reductionism.<
> 
> I had the same notion and lately Stan Salthen who is
> an advocate and savant in hierarchy theories sent me
> some papers to show it differently. I yet have to
> read
> them.
> If I find relevant momenta for this list, I will
> report them soon. 
> 
> As for the AL aspect:
> Similarly to the AI, I find it a study of the
> model(s)
> we so far constructed upon the 'so far' discovered
> features of both 'life' and 'intelligence' and
> extract
> the applicability of computers to simulate THOSE. 
> When I mentioned this to prof. Russell Standish, the
> dir. of the Au Inst for Artificial Life, he said
> that
> it still is a valuable study-instrument and a way to
> learn more. I agree. I just disagree with the
> reductionistic stance that whatever AL (or AI) DOES
> NOW represent is 'the real thing': life (itself) or
> the intelligence (whatever these natural terms may
> mean).
> 
> John M
> 
> --- Tim Gwinn <***> wrote:
> 
> > I found an earlier paper by Rasmussen et al
> entitled
> > "Ansatz for Dynamical
> > Hierarchies", in Artificial Life, 2001, vol 7,
> issue
> > 4. This is downloadable
> > from MITPress for free:
> >
>
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=5&tid=1067
> > 
> truncated
> 


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