[FRIAM] enough of Robert Rosen

[Marcus G. Daniels]

Glen E. P. Ropella wrote:
> As for the robot, you're just begging the question.  A robot is a tool
> built and programmed by us.  Or, positing a regression to where we are
> currently, a robot_N that is built by robot_(N-1), that is built by
> robot_(N-2), ..., is built by a living system.
>   
I'm imagining that the program that the robot executes is also genetic 
program, but one that benefits from richer and more dynamic perceptual 
data than in purely simulated world.   The genetic code can be inherited 
by the robot (a rusty old robot transfers its instructions to a new 
shiny robot), or the robot can evolve its own programs during its 
lifetime using simulation or experiment.  The GP candidates are random 
perturbations against things that sort-of work, so the random noise 
eventually gets it or at one of its millions of peers out of local 
minima (relative to its objectives).    There's also effectively noise 
in addition to the signals from the dynamically generated and evolving 
goo of the environment.  

Marcus