In a message dated 2/19/03 8:07:02 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
Alexi{at}netrover.com writes:

 might eventually become a sense of self-reference for A. I.s.  Those
 > systems are my theoretical core for my creations.  I'll let you tell
 > me if this would be fun for you to discuss.
 
 I can certainly provide at least some information on some of those 
 topics, as well as getting into some of the philisophical issues 
 which are already out there and are "concerns" about the future - 
 everything from Searle's claims that we'll never have a system that 
 understands what it's doing to the more interesting questions as to 
 whether or not the ALife experiments going on now are simulation 
 or instantiation. :)
 
 -N
  >>

ALife, that's the molecular computers that would be doubly allergic to both 
programming and medical viruses?  Searle is that short sighted?  Just watch 
the virus checker manufacturers and the hardware developers creating a system 
health protocol that has the machine tracking it's own problems and solving 
them on the fly.

MockYeti, puters are interesting, BardMock

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