In a message dated 2/20/03 4:17:32 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
michaelnellis{at}yahoo.com writes:

<< 
 > However, I tend to consider that a computer is no worse off than a 
 > brain, which is ultimately a biological computer - in which case
 > it's a software problem.  (Probably also a firmware problem, but
 > still...)
 
 I equate "brain" with hardware and "mind" with
software myself.  The
 difficulty with machinery, as I see it, is that machinery has no
 ability to spontaneously capture data, correlate it with previous
 data, assign variable values to the two sets of data, and then
 reprogram itself as required to assign the higher value precedence.
  >>

Ahh, like Newell's S.O.A.R. system?  S.O.A.R. stands for State, Operator, and 
Result.  I'm sure Aibo uses something similar.  

MockYeti, Sony has expensive toys, BardMoc


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