[MD] Heads or tails?

[David M]

> [Krimel}
> About the only reason I ever got for Pirsig's limitations on his levels 
> was
> 'because...' There have been many discussions about it but it seems 
> everyone
> has their own thoughts on the matter. My own is that experience is too 
> fluid
> to be confined to fixed set of static levels.

DM: But you just gotta have some latching to evolve.


>
> [Jos]
> Fanantiaclly applying this [flip flop-machine language-progam-novel] model
> to it-self, it seems clear to me that as soon as you turn a machine "on" 
> and
> allow it to boot it has become what is analogous to alive. Being a
> heterotrophic organism it chooses to feed from an external energy source 
> in
> order to sustain itself, it reacts in complex ways to stimuli and performs
> various homeostatic housekeeping duties. On top of that it stores
> information and shares it with other similar "organisms". The fact that it
> frequently "requires"(gets) "user input"(stimuli) "in order to" (that 
> happen
> to) change its patterns of behaviour is immaterial as this is also the 
> case
> with most biological systems.
>

DM: Sure, but it never seems to get bored like me.