From: Forrest Bishop (forrestb@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Thu Oct 10 1996 - 22:28:42 MDT
You wrote:
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>Suresh Naidu
>occaisonal student
>math 1a, computer science
>> Damien B.'s main point seems to be that advanced nanotech would
>> require some damn complex software which embodies or otherwise has
>> access to quite a bit of knowledge, including how things aught to be
>> designed, and how those designs can be assembled. John Clark's
>> response seems to be that it will nonetheless still happen someday.
>> If so, I'm not sure there is much disagreement here.
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>But wait..New thought just hit. You can use fractal and
self-replicating
>mathematics and the like to program nanobots, could you not. Would
that
>increase the efficiency substantially? Or has this already been
discussed.
Yes. The system (the Overtool) described at
http://www.speakeasy.org/~forrestb
is a fractal-like assembler. Assembly algorithms developed (probably
via GA) at one scale (or simulated) can be applied at all scales.
Forrest Bishop
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