Kedves Kollegak!
Kulonbozo idozitesi okok miatt Hernad Istavan hetfoi (majus 2)
programja a kovetkezo (elnezest az ujabb minor valtozasert:
Majus 2, 16-17h30, Izabella 46, II. emelet 216:
A REPLIKA folyirat kezdemeyezesere (Kelemen Gabor) vita:
POST GUTENBERG GALAXIS, AZ EMBERI GONDOLKODAS
NEGYEDIK FAZISA? -t javasoljuk.
Vita Nyiri Kristof es Hernad Istvan felvezetesevel.
18-19h30> II. emelet 216, szokasos BBS vita. Most a SCHANK
dolzozatrol.
Udvozlettel, s mindekit varunk Pleh Csaba
>Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1994 15:32:48 +1000
>Reply-To: PSYCHE Discussion Forum <PSYCHE-D%NKI.BITNET(a)UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
>Sender: PSYCHE Discussion Forum <PSYCHE-D%NKI.BITNET(a)UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
>From: Kevin Korb <korb(a)bruce.cs.monash.edu.au>
>Subject: Toward a Scientific Basis for Consciousness
>X-To: PSYCHE-D%NKI.BITNET(a)cunyvm.cuny.edu
>To: Multiple recipients of list PSYCHE-D <PSYCHE-D%NKI.BITNET>
>
>>From: spotter(a)druggist.gg.caltech.edu (Steve Potter)
>
>Last week (April 12-17, 1994) I attended the following conference in
>Tucson, AZ:
>
>TOWARD A SCIENTIFIC BASIS FOR CONSCIOUSNESS
>
>Here I will present a short review of this exciting meeting, along with
>some opinions on some of the ideas presented.
>
>The overall mood at the conference, about 300 attending, was unusually
>enthusiastic, due to the fact that this was really the first conference of
>its type, bringing together researchers from many fields to talk about what
>has been for the major part of this century a taboo subject in scientific
>circles. Recent advances in a number of neuroscience methods have made
>possible the objective, independently verifiable observation of a number of
>phenomena associated with conscious thought. Furthermore, new modeling
>paradigms associated with distributed processing in neural networks, chaos,
>and emergent phenomena have resulted in simulations displaying many of the
>qualities of conscious entities. These forces, and the fact that
>consciousness is something we all (hopefully!) have and care about, brought
>us together and will most likely result in the expansion of this and
>related conferences in the years to come.
>
>Attending were researchers from very diverse fields, including biological
>neuroscientists, computational neuroscientists, philosophers,
>anesthesiologists, physicists, mathematicians, psychologists,
>neurosurgeons, 'chaoticians' (a la Malcolm, in Jurassic Park), cognitive
>scientists, and a fairly large contingent of 'researchers' of the
>paranormal (ESP, shamanistic rituals, meditation). I was a little
>disappointed that the organizers did not weed out a few of the more flaky
>posters and talks, but the diversity was fun. The majority of the posters
>and all but a couple of the talks were in the non-flaky category, i.e.,
>relating to testable hypotheses and the scientific method currently
>accepted in the academic world.
>
>There were no parallel sessions, and the auditorium (at the U. of A.
>Medical Center) was packed, making coffee breaks in the small lobby fairly
>claustrophobic. A table was set up for anyone to display a book or paper
>they were pushing, for people to look at. I learned about a number of
>exciting books that I must go out and get ASAP this way, and think this
>ought to be done at more conferences.
>
>Abstracts for all of the talks and posters were provided along with the
>program, in a nice binder. It was announced that the complete papers will
>be published in a book, but I will not hold my breath, as the presenters
>are not even required to submit them for a month or so. A fairly complete
>list of those attending was also provided by the end of the conference.
>There were a number of field trips arranged that were too pricey for my
>taste. I brought my bike and arranged my own field trips for free.
>
>For official info about the conference or proceedings, dont ask me, ask the
>organizers:
>
>Alfred Kaszniak kaszniak(a)ccit.arizona.edu
>Stuart Hameroff srh(a)ccit.arizona.edu
>Jim Laukes jlaukes(a)ccit.arizona.edu
>
>Okay, here are some observations and opinions about the talks (and
>posters).
>A lot of folks gave whole talks on or at least paid lip service to the
>notion of quantum mechanics having something fundamental to do with
>consciousness. David Chalmers, in his excellent wrap-up put my opinion of
>this issue cleverly: "Consciousness is mysterious. Quantum mechanics is
>mysterious. By the 'Law of Minimization of Mystery', if you find two
>mysteries, maybe they are the same." I feel like QM may be a useful
>metaphor for some aspects of consciousness, but we know _way_ too little
>about either to apply QM literally as a basis for consciousness. Let's be
>careful not to mix up our metaphors and theories.
>
>Relating to this issue was something I had not heard about before
>(surprising, considering I was a brain biochemist as a grad student) and
>was quite interesting, was the possibility that microtubules could be
>computational or information-transmitting elements. Microtubules (MTs) are
>the major cytoskeletal elements of neurons, and basically all cells.
>Several talks (somewhat redundantly) described how tubulin, the monomer
>protein of which MTs are made, can switch between its two conformational
>states based on the conformational state of neighboring monomers. Anyone
>who knows jack about cellular autonoma will recognize certain similarities
>here, and they actually did simulations to show waves of conformational
>change propagating along the MTs. (Or along organized clusters of water
>molecules next to or inside the MTs.) As far as I could tell, this was all
>rampant speculation, yet to be borne out by experimental studies on real
>MTs, but had a number of testable predictions. Hameroff mentioned that the
>lowly single-celled paramecium has quite a complex repertoire of behavior
>(not quite on the level with human consciousness, I would argue!) and yet
>no nervous system. He proposes that its complex web of MTs may be its
>'nervous system'.
>
>Being fairly well-read in the neural nets literature, I am struck by how
>much has been accomplished with models using fairly simplistic 'neurons',
>and certainly nothing as sophisticated as _sub_cellular nervous systems
>within them. This leads me to believe that, whether MT processors exist or
>not, we dont need to invoke such theories to explain consciousness. I must
>not slight the boatloads of research that has shown that rearrangement of
>MTs and other cytoskeletal elements is important in learning and memory,
>but changing the cell's shape is a different issue than what these folks
>were proposing.
>
>Just about every single speaker had a quote from or mentioned the work of
>William James, who seems to have figured all this out around the turn of
>the century. I am _not_ well read in psychology, but am inspired to track
>down his writings, considering how progressive many of his ideas on
>consciousness were. For instance, he was well aware of the associational
>nature of all concepts, i.e., nothing has any meaning except in relation to
>other things. I enjoy taking this concept all the way down to the neural
>level, where the associations are between activated ensembles and such.
>
>I was very pleased to learn of the substantial work of Eric Harth on the
>importance of feedback connections in the brain in perception. These
>massive tracts, sometimes bigger than the feed-forward ones, are far too
>often ignored by neuroscientists, leading them to believe that the brain is
>stimulus-driven. Well, of course it is, but I feel (and Harth backed my
>feelings) that most of what we see, feel, hear, etc. emanates from our
>brain, the environment merely getting the thoughts started.
>
>One of my heroes, Walter Freeman, described how a stimulus makes the brain
>(the smell-centers, specifically) go from a chaotic state to a state of
>aperiodic oscillation, a basin of attraction probably corresponding to the
>conscious feeling of recognizing the odor. I bet the feedback connections
>play a major role in sending the system into its basins. (Perhaps he has
>knows this already, I am not sure.)
>
>I was disappointed that several other prominent Thinkers on Thinking did
>not attend the conference--were they invited? Notably, Douglas Hofstadter,
>Daniel Dennett, John Searle, Ray Jackendoff, Stephen LaBerge, the
>Churchlands, Robert Ornstein, Francis Crick, Geoffrey Edelman, Martha
>Farah, and Marvin Minsky, come to my mind. Perhaps next year!
>
>The conference was mostly synthesis, proposals and speculations, so no
>great answers about how consciousness happens yet. The best real data
>presented, IMHO, was from Bruce McNaughton, who records from up to 150
>neurons at a time in the hippocampus of a freely behaving rat for weeks at
>a time. Beside the fact that this is an extremely impressive technical
>feat (I know because I am trying to do very similar things with cultured
>neurons, that dont run around all night), it was a real window into the
>thought processes (consciousness?) of a rat. He recorded the neurons'
>activity while the rat was foraging around a box, and during naps before
>and after the foraging. He found 'place cells' that fire only when the rat
>is in a specific part of the box. He was able to use the place cell 'map'
>to accurately predict the rat's trajectory, based on the neural signals.
>He also showed the effect of subsequent learning on previously established
>maps. But even cooler was the observation that neurons that had correlated
>firing during the foraging and not before (implying that they are learning
>preferences to nearby places), also were highly correlated during the
>post-forage nap. Thus, the rat may have been dreaming of snippets of its
>box experience, reinforcing or consolidating the important associations.
>Neat stuff.
>
>I look toward functional MRI to come up with similar experiments on humans
>in the near future. Keep your eye on this amazing new technology: I
>predict that it will oust PET studies in a year or two, due to its far
>greater spatial and temporal resolution, and the fact that it does not
>require the poor subject to dose up on radioactivity.
>
>
>An excellent conference overall, with many speakers referring to other's
>talks in their talks.
>Subscribe to Psyche-D if you are into this type of thing and want to chat
>with like minded individuals who obviously have way more free time than I
>do.
>
>
>
>Steve Potter, Ph.D.
>Division of Biology 156-29
>California Institute of Technology
>Pasadena, CA 91125
>spotter(a)druggist.gg.caltech.edu
>
>
Koszonom a meghivast, de mozgaskorlatozotta valvan ez most nem megy.
Udvozlom az egybegyulteket es a diszvendeget fokent.
Horanyi Ozseb
-------------------------------
Ozseb Horanyi
Janus Pannonius University
H-7624 Pecs, Ifjusag ut 6.
Hungary
Tel: 36-72-324048
E-mail: horanyi(a)btk.jpte.hu
-------------------------------
Forwarded message:
From: IZABELL/PLEH
To: #everyone
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 1994 13:03:27 GMT+100
Subject: hernad buli valtozott ideje
Kedves Kollegak,
Hernad istvan tiszteletere a buli tovabbra is Pleh Csaba Budakeszi
Zichy Peter utca 4,
de helyes idopontja:
aprilis 27 szerda, 19h.
Mindenkit melegen varunk.
A regi idopont pentek, 29 volt.
Utvonal: gyalog 22-es busz, tanacshaza. Vissda Pest fele, be balra.
Azutan lampa, lampa utan elagazas jobbram az iskola es temeto kozt.
ott be, elso sarok balra, sorhazban a 2. haz.
Alneve Szamuely.
Autoval minden ugyanez, kiveve, hogy ertelemszeruen a foutrol
jobbra fordulsz, ott, ahol ki van irva, hogy ... Telki vagy Budajeno,
egyetlen igazi elgazas.
Udv Pleh Csaba
From: <6155GUASTELL(a)VMS.CSD.MU.EDU>
Fri, 15 Apr 1994 12:16:05 -0500 (CDT)
To: IN%"NONLIN-L(a)LIST.NIH.GOV" "Multiple recipients of list NONLIN-L"
Here's an updated version of the conference flyer. If you have any brain
cells left in this most harried of times, I'd appreciate your posting it
to any lists you know.
Onward and upward,
Sally
****************************************************************
ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF
The Society for Chaos Theory
in Psychology and the Life Sciences
****************************************************************
This year's annual meeting will be held June 24-27, 1994, at Johns Hopkins
University in Baltimore, Maryland (USA). Papers will be presented on theory,
methods, research and application of chaos theory (complex systems, nonlinear
dynamical systems) in a wide range of fields including psychology,
neurophysiology, sociology, economics, anthropology, education, strategic
planning, business and organizational development and the humanities.
Sessions are typically organized based on topic rather than
discipline to promote interdisciplinary dialogue.
The list of papers includes (but is not limited to):
- A Case Study of Manic-depressive Illness Using a Chaos Model
- Dynamical Models of the Collapse of Complex Societies
- The Use of Power Laws in Measuring Economic Integration
- Instability as a Precondition for Self-organization in Social Systems
- Chaos and Self-similarity in the Creative Process
- Exploring the Idea of Culture Using Random Cellular Automata
- A Dynamical Systems Model of Why Dieting Doesn't Work
- Chaotic Patterns in Data from Franchise Businesses
- The Co-Evolution of Symbol Systems and Perceptual Systems
- Co-existence of chaotic and periodic attractors in a model of enzymatic
reactions
- How Chaos and Complexity Change Theories of Evolution and Ecology
SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKERS
Will be Dr. James Yorke from the University of Maryland and Dr. Paul Rapp of
The Medical College of Pennsylvania. Dr. Yorke, of course, is famous for
being one of the early explorers of chaos. He and Li coined the term "chaos"
in an early article and he continues to be one of the pioneers in this expanding
field. His talk will include, among other things, the changing meanings
of the term "chaos." Dr. Rapp is noted for his work on chaos and its role in
the operation of the human brain. His talk will be on difficulties in proving a
system is chaotic and what this implies about work in the "science" of Chaos.
REGISTRATION
The conference is open to Society members and non-members alike. Cost is
$75 regular and $35 student. On-site lodging and meals are available.
Registration information and lodging and meal costs are given below.
WORKSHOP ON METHODS
On June 28-29, just following the annual meeting, the Society is sponsoring a
tutorial workshop on research methods in nonlinear dynamic and complexity
The introductory segment will focus on Chaos, Attractors and Fractal
Dimension Analysis. The advanced segment will focus on Complex Systems
Theory and Methods. Each segment consists of two three-hour sessions; cost
is $100 per segment. For more information or to register, contact:
Dr. Sally Goerner,
374 Wesley Court,
Chapel Hill NC 27516 USA
919-932-5587 (phone or fax)
or email: goerner(a)gibbs.oit.unc.edu
We highly recommend this workshop for those of you who are just beginning
in the fields of nonlinear dynamics or complexity.
****************************************************************
About the Society
****************************************************************
The Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences brings
together researchers and practitioners interested in applying dynamical
systems theory, self-organization theory, neural nets, fractals, and
other forms of chaos and complexity theory to the study of phenomena
in the human and life sciences. Our members hail from numerous specialties in
psychology as well as sociology, economics, mathematics, physics, philosophy,
and literature. The Society publishes a newsletter, holds an annual
conference, maintains the CHAOPSYC bulletin board, and hosts
workshops on nonlinear methods each summer. Our first collected
volume of papers will be published in early 1995 and plans for a
journal are in progress.
****************************************************************
CONFERENCE COSTS AND REGISTRATION
****************************************************************
The conference will be held June 24-27, 1994, at the Wolman Center at Johns
Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Registration cost is $75
regular, $35 student or limited income. Lodging and/or meals are
available on-site at the following rates:
Rooms:
$29.70 per person per night for a double,
$37.10 per person per night for a single.
Food:
$17.08 per person for three meals per day.
$11.96 per person for two meals per day.
$7.44 per person for lunch only
Parking:
$2.00 per day.
Use the form below to register. To guarantee availability lodging and
meals should be reserved by April 22, 1994.
****************************************************************
CONFERENCE REGISTRATION FORM
I wish to register for the annual conference of the Society for Chaos Theory in
Psychology and the Life Sciences.
Name_______________________________________________________________
Address_____________________________________________________________
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Phone (Work)______________________(Home)_____________________________
Email________________________________________________________________
Enclosed is (check box): ___ Registration Fee
___ Payment for Lodging and/or Meals
Lodging information: Please indicate single or double occupancy;
number in party; dates you will need accommodations and if meal plan is
desired.
____________________________________________________________________
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____________________________________________________________________
Send form and checks (payable to the Society for Chaos Theory in
Psychology and the Life Sciences) to:
Katherine Robertson
Secretary/Treasurer
Society for Chaos Theory
P.O. Box 7226
Alhambra, CA 91802
If check is not from a US bank please use money order or make payment out to
Dr. Robin Robertson instead of to the Society for Chaos Theory.
VENDEGPROFESSZORUNK HERNAD ISTVAN
Szokasos oktatasi egyuttmukodesunk kereteben 1994. aprilis
16. es 1994. majus 8. kozott Hernad Istvan (Princeton
University, BBS) tanszekunk, az Altalanos Pszicholologiai
Tanszek vendege lesz.
Elereheto: mint mindig, harnad(a)princeton.edu
vagy hernad(a)ludens.elte.hu
vagy 1-423-130, fax 1-423-109
Hernad kollega az Izabella utcaban lesz elerheto, itt is fog
lakni.
Elozetes szakmai programja
Eloadasok
***
CARVING NATURE CREATING THE JOINTS
aprilis 19., kedd, 16.00-18.00, Izabella u., I. em., 101. terem
Az izuleteknel kell a termeszetet szetbontani
- az izulet tanulas altali teremtese
(A szokott metafora az, hogy a termeszetet ugy kell felvagdosni,
hogy ott vagjal, ahol a termeszetes repedesek lennenek,
Hernad Istvan pedig arrol fog beszelni, ahol mi teremtjuk
ezeket a repedeseket.)
***
WHAT IS COMPUTATION, AND IS COGNITION JUST THAT?
aprilis 22., pentek, 16.00-18.00, Izu., I. em. 101. terem
Mi a szamitas, es lehet-e a gondolkodas csak az?
Hernad Istvan kuldott 6 cikket ebben a temaban. Szeretne, ha
a diakok ezeket elore elolvasnak es mindegyikrol egy diak
eloadna (kb. 5 percig), majd szeminarium-stilusban megvitatnak azt.
A cikkek kinyomtatva megtalalhatok az Izabella utcaban
a IV. em. 410-es szobaban (Varga Cecilianal) vagy a
halozaton ANONYMUS FTP segitsegevel elerhetok az
IZABELL.ELTE.HU USER\PUB\HARNAD, HARNAD.TXT,
vagy levelben lekerheto a listserv(a)cogpsyphy.hu
cimrol
get harnad computation
utasitassal.
***
Tanszeki kutatasi szeminariumok
Aprilis 19., kedd, 12.00-13.00, IV. em., 411.
Czigler Istvan: Szukseg van-e kognitiv pszichofiziologiara?
aprilis 26., kedd, 12.00-13.00, 411.
Pleh Csaba: A teri kifejezesek ertelmezese a magyarban
***
Etologiai kutatasi szeminarium Csanyi Vilmossal.
Aprilis 20., szerda, 14.00-tol, es aprilis 27., szerda 14.00-tol
Elso alkalommal Somlai Peter, masodik alkalommal Hernad Istvan beszel.
Tema szociobiologia es mesterseges elet.
***
Kozos megbeszelesek a kognitiv pszichologiai es a biologus
doktoranduszokkal megbeszeledno idoben.
Budapesti koordinator: gyori(a)izabell.elte.hu.
Tema: A reprezentaciok fejlodese.
***
Hetfoi kognitiv szeminariumok, 18.00-20.00-ig, Izu., II. em. 216.
BBS-temak aprilis 25. es majus 2. 18.00, es tovabbi megbeszelendo idok.
Max Velmans:
Is Human Information Processing Conscious?
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1991, 14, 77-99.
Marc Jeannerod:
The Representing Brain Neural Correlates of
Motor Intention and Imagery
David R. Schank & Mark F. St. John:
Characteristics of Dissociable Human Learning Systems
(Cikkek a mar ismertetett helyen. Az utobbi ketto hozzaferheto
a KOGLIST archivumaban is a
get bbs shanks
illetve
get bbs jeannerod
utasitassal a listserv(a)cogpsyphy.hu cimre.)
***
Aprilis 29., pentek, 19.00
BULI Pleh Csabanal
mindenkit szivesen latunk!
Cim Budakeszi, Zichy Peter u. 4. (terkep keresre)
***
Aprilis 28., 18.00 Eloadas az ELTE Bolyai Kollegiumban
(Csanyi Vilomos szervezeseben)
***
Rovid idorendi attekintes
Aprilis 19., kedd
12.00-13.00 tanszeki szeminarium, Czigler Istvan eloadasa
16.00-18.00 Hernad Istvan: Carving Nature Creating the Joints.
Aprilis 20., szerda
14.00-tol tanszeki szeminarium, Csanyi Vilmos, Somlai Peter
Aprilis 22., pentek
16.00-18.00 Hernad Istvan:
What is Computation, and Is Cognition Just That?
Aprilis 25., hetfo
18.00-20.00 hetfo esti szeminarium, BBS temak
Aprilis 26., kedd
12.00-13.00 tanszeki szeminarium, Pleh Csaba
Aprilis 27., szerda
14.00-tol tanszeki szeminarium, Csanyi Vilmos es Hernad Istvan
Aprilis 28., csutortok
18.00-tol Bolyai Kollegium eloadas, Csanyi Vilmos szervezeseben
Aprilis 29., pentek
19.00- Buli Pleh Csabanal
Majus 2., hetfo
18.00-20.00 hetfo esti szeminarium, BBS temak
Pleh Csaba
Forwarded message:
From: IZABELL/PLEH
To: #everyone
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 1994 10:05:51 GMT+100
Subject: Martin Prinzhorn visit
Martin Prinzhorn, lecturer at Vienna University Department of
Linguistics will be a guest lecturer of our cognitive program at Dept
General Psychology, ELTE, Izabella 46.
He will be here between 8th and and 15th of May, and will talk avery
day 16 to 18, at a room to be specified in a later announcement.
His topic is:
REDUCTION:
Semantic, psychological and philosophical reductions
Everybody is most wellcome. He is a GB trained linguist with a strong
interest in mental representation and cognitive modeling.
Altough we shall have a later announcement, send any inquiries to
pleh(a)izabell.elte.hu.
P.S. Detailed program of Istvan Harnad comes soon. His first talk
will be Tuesday, 19th, 16.00 to 18.00, Room 101 Izabella 46.
Csaba Pleh
1994. a1prilis 18-a e1s 20-a ko3zo3tt az ELTE BTK Metafizika Tsz
meghi1va1sa1ra az Institut Francais ta1mogata1sa1val Budapesten tarto1zkodik
Jacques Brunschwig, a Sorbonne filozo1fia professzora.
Elo3ada1sa1nak e1s szemina1riumainak ido3pontja e1s helye:
Aprilis 18, he1tfo3, 10:30, ELTE BTK Go2ro2g Tsz szemina1rium (Bp. V., Pesti B.
u. 1, III. em):
Elo3ada1s az O1kortudoma1nyi Ta1rsasa1gban
``Aristotle on Dialectics and Rhetoric'' ci1mmel.
A1prilis 18, he1tfo du. 2 o1ra, ELTE BTK Metafizika Tsz szemina1rium (Bp. V.,
Pesti B. u.1, I. em 2):
Szemina1rium Arisztotele1sz _Topika1ja_ 4.-8. ko2nyve1nek
szo3vegkritikai proble1ma1iro1l
A1prilis 19, kedd du. 4 o1ra, ELTE BTK Metafizika Tsz szemina1rium (Bp. V.,
Pesti B. u.1, I. em 2):
Szemina1rium Arisztotele1sz _Topika1ja_ 4.-8. ko2nyve1nek
szo3vegkritikai proble1ma1iro1l (folytata1s).
Az elo3ada1sra e1s a szemina1riumokra minden e1rdeklo3do3t szeretettel va1runk.
----- Forwarded message begins here -----
From: Chris G. Langton <cgl(a)SantaFe.edu>
25 Mar 1994 19:22:58 GMT
Newsgroups: sci.cognitive
Subject: Artificial Life Online
ANNOUNCING:
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The Artificial Life Online WWW-Server and BBS Service
Sponsored by
MIT Press
and
The Santa Fe Institute
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The Artificial Life Online/BBS is intended to be a central
information collection and distribution site on the Internet
for any and all aspects of the Artificial Life endeavor. The
system is sponsored by MIT Press and the Santa Fe Institute.
The Alife Online service combines the functionalities of a
WWW server, a Gopher server, an FTP site, an interactive
bulletin-board-system, and Usenet News. Directions for accessing
Alife Online and the ALBBS in these different modes are included
below.
A special feature is a collection of 40 or so local newsgroups
dedicated to a wide variety of topics in Artificial Life.
Many of the files and resources here are available to everybody
via Gopher and WWW. However, to access the full range of BBS
services, it is necessary to come in using telnet and to create a
local account. This will allow you to participate in the local Alife
newsgroup discussions, and to set up personal information files
such as a plan, project, HTML personal home page, etc.
To access Alife Online via World-Wide-Web (WWW):
Use the URL http://alife.santafe.edu/
For best results we suggest using a client capable of
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A character-based (ASCII) client called "lynx" is also
available -- but will not support graphics.
To access the Alife Online BBS (ALBBS) via telnet:
telnet to "alife.santafe.edu" and login as "bbs". You
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To set up a local account, telnet to "alife.santafe.edu"
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Once you have an account on alife.santafe.edu, you can
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You do not have to create an account to use the ALBBS via
telnet - you can simply login as "bbs" and browse through
the system using the BBS commands.
To access the www features in the context of a character
based client, telnet to alife.santafe.edu and login to the
BBS as "lynx".
To access Artificial Life Online using Gopher:
Connect to alife.santafe.edu (standard gopher port 70).
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ftp to alife.santafe.edu, login as "anonymous" and
type your login@homesite as the password.
Everything interesting is in your login@homesite as the password.
Everything interesting is in the "pub" directory.
Feedback:
Please let us know if you have any suggestions or
questions about the Alife Online/BBS system.
Send Email to:
feedback(a)alife.santafe.edu
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