On Fri, 4 Jun 1999 22:24:11 -0500 "Joe E. Dees" <joedees@bellsouth.net>
wrote:
> Date sent: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 18:42:45 -0700 (PDT)
yeah, but u could argue that if we didn't create an enviroment for them
they wouldn't be able to survive
> From: Dylan Durst <ddurst@levien.com>
> To: virus@lucifer.com
> Subject: Re: virus: Technology (was manifest science)
> Send reply to: virus@lucifer.com
>
> > > They are self-aware, but rudimentarily so. They can learn a limited
> > > microlanguage, but never create one in the wild.
> >
> > Where is the 'wild'? Where does it begin an end? I say that this is a
> > silly distinction, and that where we are is the wild also (damn 'skeeters
> > bitin' my neck). I say they learned in their environment, which, in this
> > case happened to be a lab (i guess, coulda been a sandbox).
> >
> Howzabout this one? Where we ain't teaching them anything.
Bodie