Indeed yes - he was awarded the OBE because of is programming skills in
that he invented "Creatures" - "the Norns"; he actually tirned the
Artificial intelligence research community on its head a bit, because in
inventing the above mentioned "artificial life", he achieved what millions
of dollars of research money had significantly failed to do. Yet he has no
academic qualifications, is somewhat dyslexic and left-handed (which does
have some bearing on his slightly unusual perspective on life, apparently),
and for that matter doesn't even have a particular lot of money. He's a bit
bolshy, and is convinced that evryone's doing it wrong; he has formed his
own small research effort, rather than sell out to someone big. Douglas
Adams is a fan, as is Richard Dawkins, I understand.
Check out his homepage.
Did you also follow up that Lakeoff/ the Edge link I sent? - some similar
themes, so I also sent it to Steve (the aforementioned author)
cheers,
ppl
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathan B. Marder" <jonathan.marder@newmail.net>
To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
Sent: 31 August 2000 12:19
Subject: Re: MD Where Newton Went Wrong
> Hi all,
>
>
> >Subject: MD Where Newton Went Wrong . . .
> > http://www.cyberlife-research.com/articles/newton.htm
> >
>
> Peter, thanks. I love it. Do you know anything about the author?
>
> In the article Steve Grand says:
> 'In fact Philosophy can be facetiously but accurately described as "the
> art of stating the bleeding obvious". We just have to remember that what
> 's obvious after it has been stated might have been totally overlooked
> up until that moment.'
>
> I fully concur and regard Pirsig as one of those rare luminaries who
> make obvious what was previously overlooked.
>
> I also loved Grand,s 'tautological, principle of nature: Things that
> persist, persist; things that don't, don't.'
> That is certainly an important theme in evolution!
>
> Jonathan
>
>
>
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