Before I got to the point in my education where I learned what the CPU has eaten it seemed that software programming languages had a ladder of more abstract and more concredte languages but it seemed it was just an issue of translating one language to the other. The primitive “takes orders” capacity seemed mysterious how it could ever appear or be explained in the hierachy. The beauty of learning what a primitive computer was like is in that none of the parts “take orders”, its the software that is done entirely in hardware.
But processors are extrenally driven. For agents I suspect the core property is auto-poesis ie being run from signals emerging from within. Circuits will do some computation when excited but then “sleep” if the enviornemnt is not actively pushing in. Computers can keep up the excitation but will do essentially the same pattern unless disturbed from outside. Agents are the things that keep on changing their pattern even if the environment leaves them alone (or their evolution is because of the echo they make into the environment).
Before I got to the point in my education where I learned what the CPU has eaten it seemed that software programming languages had a ladder of more abstract and more concredte languages but it seemed it was just an issue of translating one language to the other. The primitive “takes orders” capacity seemed mysterious how it could ever appear or be explained in the hierachy. The beauty of learning what a primitive computer was like is in that none of the parts “take orders”, its the software that is done entirely in hardware.
But processors are extrenally driven. For agents I suspect the core property is auto-poesis ie being run from signals emerging from within. Circuits will do some computation when excited but then “sleep” if the enviornemnt is not actively pushing in. Computers can keep up the excitation but will do essentially the same pattern unless disturbed from outside. Agents are the things that keep on changing their pattern even if the environment leaves them alone (or their evolution is because of the echo they make into the environment).