Message oriented genetics

Justin Walsh jwalsh at bigpond.net.au
Thu Oct 11 21:12:27 UTC 2001


Good reply! But, would it not be better to discover the (rational) behavior
behind intention first? Might it not save us a lot wasted detail?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andres Valloud" <sqrmax at prodigy.net>
To: <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 1:43 AM
Subject: Re: Message oriented genetics


> Hi.
>
> > > Sometimes I wonder what would happen if somebody came up with
> > > Message Oriented Quantum Mechanics, Message Oriented Physics or
> > > Message Oriented Genetics...
> > If I try to explain to someone the idea of objects and messages,
> > they find it very difficult and abstract:
> > Then I do the body analogy <snip>
> > We do not know what really triggers this specialism: biochemical
> > messages? (or.. gravity?... relative location?)
>
> It would be best to spell out the behavior which we can attribute to
> intention.  Implementation details will get better over time as more
> intention is discovered.
>
> Andres.
>
>





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