Xref: utzoo comp.ai:2845 talk.philosophy.misc:1704 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!cornell!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!cadre!geb From: geb@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU (Gordon E. Banks) Newsgroups: comp.ai,talk.philosophy.misc Subject: Re: Artificial Intelligence and Intelligence Keywords: Matter, Energy, Information, Knowledge, Values, Free Will Message-ID: <1859@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU> Date: 9 Dec 88 18:52:44 GMT References: <562@metapsy.UUCP> <2732@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> <563@metapsy.UUCP> <1841@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU> <42571@linus.UUCP> Reply-To: geb@cadre.dsl.pittsburgh.edu (Gordon E. Banks) Organization: Decision Systems Lab., Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA. Lines: 27 In article <42571@linus.UUCP> bwk@mbunix (Kort) writes: >Not only is there room for the possibility of indeterminacy, some >of us deliberately encorporate elements of randomness into our >behaviors. Interesting. Do you use a true or a pseudo random number generator to introduce this randomness? >One of the more interesting elements that is added to the human >body is the element of information. The information necessary to reproduce the organism seems to be encoded in DNA. One would suppose that knowledge and values are also encoded in physical systems whether neural networks or something as yet undiscovered. > (There is at least one >school of physics which proposes that the Universe is composed >of matter, energy, and information.) What school is this? I hadn't heard of it. >deference to our Eastern philosophical friends, we may think of >such information as "Patterns of Organic Energy". How does this Organic Energy differ from other forms of energy? Does it have separate conservation laws? Is this a new form of vitalism?