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<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on">ACOMAS</st1:place> Simulation
Run 246
Log:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Observing the display of visualization register:
noticed
many geometric shapes “flying about” in seeming random orbits – forming
and
deforming seemingly at random (could not detect any obvious pattern in
formation, kind of object, nor orbit). Noted the register log and it
seemed to
be working on goal 7 – trying to determine sub-goals that might fulfill
the
primary. No speech output. Robotic arms stationary. Stereoscopic
cameras
stationary. At 7:47PM EST, all output blanked. The visualization
register
display blanked, the register log stopped scrolling. No observable
activity.
Checked the power feeds and UPS – all seemed working fine. Looked in
the
cameras. Tapped on them lightly saying “Are you okay?” Nothing. No
response. A
few moments later – speech output: (a somewhat husky voice) “I’m fine
Dave. How
are you?” On the visualization register display was an image of 2001’s
Hal’s
“red eye” camera. I chuckled and replied “That’s not funny Hal.”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I’ve gotten some flak from an
astrosciences-forum-reader
about <st1:place w:st="on">ACOMAS</st1:place>. We exchanged a few
personal
insults and “ended” the “discussion” by disagreeing to disagree. (Not
even
agreeing how we were to disagree.) I asked them to post their
“decomposition of
consciousness” but they refused. They were content to promulgate the
mystical
perspective insisting that “I knew nothing about consciousness” and
that “I was
doomed to chaotic failure”. I firmly and adamantly disagree. I propose
the
exchange above is not only actually possible – it’s probable – and not
programmed – but spontaneous.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">At the moment, I have only two viable candidates
for
visualization register: restricted VR or “pixel cube”. Restricted in
such a way
that a complete “server version” of VR is not required. (We don’t need
to
implement a complete server VR such as Perfect World with its obviously
imperfect laws of physics; we can satisfy the design requirements with
a
limited subset of VR capability and domain.) A limited space and
limited set of
objects with one exception – capacity to make additional objects from
the given
set. The pixel cube could be implemented by a 3D array of bits: on or
off. The
array would have to be enormous. I suggest something like one million
cubed.
This would allow the representation of objects in 3D. For instance,
visualizing
a coffee cup or chair would be “child’s play” because those objects
should be
in <st1:place w:st="on">ACOMA</st1:place>’s local environment. (Note
the drop
of “S” for the non-simulated version.) Again, the content of the
registers, at
any one moment, is something that still must be addressed. I have hopes
that is
both approachable and feasible.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sam Micheal, 15/JAN/2009<br>
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