http://www.edge.org/discourse/jaron_answer.html
<http://www.edge.org/discourse/jaron_answer.html>
a quote:
"The failure modes of practical software are quite different from what is
seen in chemical/biological systems. When a computer crashes (and I mean a
real computer, not a thought experiment in a math journal), nothing else
happens. The is no more processing. When an organism crashes, it turns into
food for other organisms. Its information is not entirely lost from the
system. I recognize that this point will probably fall on deaf ears to
respondents who think of computers as already being autonomous and
biological in some sense. I think a careful examination of computers as they
are in the real world will show that all the "biological" properties of
digital technology are brought to the table by the people who maintain the
technology. "
This is the second part of two parts following a half a manifesto by Jeron
Lanier.
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