I like the Video Will. Good job with his head movements. I know that has taken allot of effort for you to do. It's encouraging to me somehow to see you work on Mr Data.
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You got me thinking ONE.
I don't think this is wrong. And I'm not trying to change or control this thread. If you will allow me to think out-load some of my thoughts concerning possible A.I. fundamentals.
I know that our personalities are all built on a physical platform. (i.e. like a computer is a physical form housing various programs) So working on this theory, let us reverse engineer ourselves.
In general, DNA functions by a chemical bonding process. Because of positive and negative attractions between atoms, certain chemicals are alowed to bond together (i.e. Cytosine, Adenine, Thymine, Guanine) and therefore form the Helix. I know this is over-siplification but it will work for now.
The DNA moves and functions in particular paterns because of this attractive force. It uses this force to build all the parts of the human body, and it is also prelude to how the human body functions as a whole.
For instance, Our nervous system is made of positive and negative forces poised to allow information to travel. Between the nerves themselves there are even more chemicals that are also functioning by charged particles.
Even our own bodys run by the chemical reaction between Oxygen and carbon compounds... I could go on, but you get the idea that we seem to be nothing more than a large electric ciruit.
However, there is more to it than that.
Our bodys have a type of programming I'm calling "Mechanical Programming" (yes i have to come up with my own terminolgy) This type of programming involves the arrangement of the physical components that can in-turn create the/a desired results.
Chemicals are perfect for this on a microscopic level. Different chemicals exhibit different properties and can be modifid and changed easily. For instance, Acid can be used to dis-assemble other chemical bonds and also form new ones too.
Mechanical Programming involves the whole and it's properties.. there is nothing Virtual about it. An example of a man-made robot that exhibited this quality is this (Very Early Robot)
http://www.newscientist.com/blog/technology/2007/07/programmable-robot-from-60ad.html.
The information is writen into the strings and is also carried out in a motion brought on by another force called gravity[

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I was thinking about electronics and computers too. The force involved with robots is simular to the forces involved with human DNA. It is centered arround the electron. However, when you're dealing with computers (non-robots) then your taking away the mechanical quality. No parts are in motion (essentially) so it seems to only be a really big calculator. It takes the 1 and 0's and does multitudes of calculations and gives you more 1 and 0's in return.
So now what? I guess if you could wind the computed information up into the strings (or mechanical robot) then perhaps you would have the beginnings of a living entity (early beginnings).
At least that is what our DNA is running on. You know.... information that is encoded into a physical form, that unwinds because of its very electro/mechanical nature.
Remember this one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKZ-GjSaqgo&feature=channel It covers a some of the information I've already said.
But.... The mind also works with lots of processesing power. Its got its own little computers in-built ready to make things easier for us. Like walking and visual recognition.
So I'm thinking that as a person's life unfolds he uses these mini-computers to help him/herself to succeed in its goals. Instead of just mindlessly running arround in circles like a BristleBot.
This robot will one day take over all dentests offices... and eventually rule the world....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUSTXUis_ysAs for theories about how we feel things. It may have something to do with the nature of internal feedback. If the entity is constantly monitoring it's on success level then that feedback could also be regestered.... creating a type of feedback loop. Only it is effecting the mechanics of the creature. So that you feel bad when something is hidering you... wether physically or emotionally.
I don't know about these theories, but I like thinking.[

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