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> His messages are directed to specific objects, whereas in a biological system, enzymes and the like are dumped into the bloodstream indiscriminately without a
by andrekandre 1y ago
> His messages are directed to specific objects, whereas in a biological system, enzymes and the like are dumped into the bloodstream indiscriminately without a specific target.
he actually goes into this in one of his (many) talks where he explains what some next steps might be for objects to "sense their environment" and message into the ether so-to-speak very similar to how you describe [0]
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjJaFG63Hlo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjJaFG63Hlo
(he starts talking about that around 12 mins)
- Rochus 1y agoThanks for the link. We already have computer-implemented objects which "sense their environment" since the seventies; e.g. each network adapter "senses" the physical medium for packets it is interested in (which was actually also invented at PARC); also in message queue systems, senders and receivers are not directly connected, but the receiver observes the queues it is interested in and reacts to messages. Even though there are still significant differences to biological systems, where information is encoded not only in the type, but e.g. also in concentration of molecules; there is also no message order, but communication is subject to stochastic processes.