X-Message-Number: 32902
Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2010 23:43:44 -0700
From: Mike Perry <>
Subject: Re: CryoNet #32899
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>Message #32899
>From: 
>Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2010 11:48:51 -0400 (EDT)
>Subject: various
>
>[...]
>Mike Perry talks about a distinction between a description and an ongoing
>process. I think this is a false distinction. One can describe a painting,
>and  one can also describe a movie.

I have to say, I don't get it. There is a world of difference between 
interacting with a robot and, say, looking at a fixed record of some 
sort. Yes, you can describe a movie, but a movie can't carry on a 
conversation, can't respond to your input in a variable way, it only 
runs through a fixed sequence of "moves"--the same each time you run 
it. It is like a fixed description, but an interacting robot is a world apart.

Mike

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