colonel@sunybcs.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) (12/19/85)
> Following Jim Balter's suggestion, we will want to endow it with > "multiband" sensory I/O. ... The first goal will be to survive. That > means it must sense danger, and take measures to prevent its own > demise. The second goal will be to obtain as much sensory input as > possible on all channels, and use that data to build a picture or model > of the environment in which it is embedded. The third goal will be to > discover everything there is to discover, including the fact of its own > existence, the mechanism of its own functioning, and the answer to the > three Questions, "What Am I? Who Created Me and Why? and "What Do I Do > After I Have Answered the First Two Questions?" After that, our next goal is to enlist Dr. Who to fight them off. "Halt, or you will be exterminated ... exterminated ..." -- Col. G. L. Sicherman UU: ...{rocksvax|decvax}!sunybcs!colonel CS: colonel@buffalo-cs BI: csdsicher@sunyabva