28 Jan
2008
28 Jan
'08
16:59
On Jan 27, 2008 7:56 PM, Bob McIsaac bobmc@fcibroadband.com wrote:
Think of termite and ant colonies, and bee hives. Intelligence seems to arise from dumb little insects sharing smells with each other. So too you can create intelligence with a vast army of "termites" with Scheme running on a mini-itx or other single-board computer playing the "mother-ship" role. Of course, each object is simple so you can effectively model the system before building any hardware.
On the other hand, it took fat humans to discover lambda calculus and build computers.
Hmmm, getting an ant colony to perform lambda-term reduction in some way seems like a fun science project! Do you have kids, Bob? :)
--Jeff