Re: Redesign your life
- Subject: Re: Redesign your life
- From: "Loren Larsen" <lul@ix.netcom.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 00:23:27 -0800
- 21: 15:54 -0800
Hi John. Great thread!
When I was in college I spent quite a bit of time playing around with what
some
people call "introspective computers"...See the problem with computers is
that
they don't pay much attention to what they are doing and keep repeating the
same
mistake over and over and over again, although to their credit when they do
something well they are able to do it consistently over and over and over
as well.
The idea of an introspective computer is to design something that can
observe
its own behavior and make changes over time while being aware of the impact
of
its performance. If it makes a change that slows things down, it can
notice, and
try something else...Not really a novel concept to most people reading this
I'm
sure, but to many people I know it is.
So I think that whatever machine you decide to build should just have the
ability
introspect about its behavior, and make changes...It's just simple
Test-Operate-Test-Exit, but it's not very common in the computing world or
otherwise when you think
about it. In fact why not build a machine that evolves from something very
simple,
just by giving it the basic building blocks to observe, learn and change.
It would
be interesting to see how the machine evolves over time.
Loren
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> From: John & Kristy Byrne <slands@mail.aic.net.au>
> To: nlptalk@ecuinfo.cowan.edu.au
> Subject: Redesign your life
> Date: Monday, November 25, 1996 12:24 PM
>
> Howdy!
>
> I have been asked by a friend of mine to help them "redesign" their
entire
> life. Believe me, they need something! This person is so unhappy and so
out
> of rapport with themselves and others that they are completely unhappy
with
> their life.
>
> What do you think about the idea of creating (in trance) a "DHE"-like
> machine to completely redesign their entire life? My original idea was to
> do this manually, from the ground up, but I love to make things simple
(for
> me) and automatic.
>
> Any thoughts would be appreciated, and probably get things going in the
> newsgroup!
>
> Maybe you could suggest component parts for the machine....
>
>
> Kindest Regards,
>
>
> John B.
>
>