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From: Chris G. Langton <cgl(a)SantaFe.edu>
25 Mar 1994 19:22:58 GMT
Newsgroups: sci.cognitive
Subject: Artificial Life Online
ANNOUNCING:
ARTIFICIAL LIFE ONLINE
The Artificial Life Online WWW-Server and BBS Service
Sponsored by
MIT Press
and
The Santa Fe Institute
alife.santafe.edu
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
handling color graphics and forms, such as Mosaic.
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
will find yourself in a specially constructed UNIX
shell within which either BBS menu commands or UNIX
commands can be used to browse around in the system.
To set up a local account, telnet to "alife.santafe.edu"
login as "bbs," and run the "account" program. These
accounts will initially be provided free of charge, but
we will eventually have to charge a nominal fee in order
to cover operating expenses (on the order of $15-$25 per
year). Subscribers to the Artificial Life Journal from
MIT Press will have this fee waived.
Once you have an account on alife.santafe.edu, you can
telnet to "alife.santafe.edu" and login as yourself.
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).
To access Artificial Life Online via FTP:
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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Tegnap zavarok voltak az itteni levelezesi rendszerben, ezert
nehanyan nem kaptak meg a tegnapi harom hirdetmenyt. Igy ezeket
a kovetkezokben ismetelten szetkuldom. Elnezest kerek azoktol,
akik mindezt ketszer kapjak meg.
Csibra Gergely
kedves Kollegak,
napjainkban folyik Becs varosaban a GLOW meeting (Generative
Linguistics in the Old World).
Ennek reszekent szombaton lesz egy nyelvelsajatitas es a nyelvtan
elmelete cimmel szombaton egy gyules.
Foleg GB jellegu es megalapozottsagu a dolog:
Rizzi
De Villiers
Guasti
Schaner-Wolles
Wexler
9 h 30kor kezdodik a dolog, s kb. 18.00 oraig tart.
A cim: Juridicum, Schottanbastei, 10-16. Vagyis a Becsi Egyetem Jogi
Kara,
ami elegge az egyetem foepulete s a Schottentor metromegallo
kornyeken van.
Mindenkit tiszta szivvel latnak. Ha barmi problema lenne,
hivatkozzatok Martin Prinzhornra es Pleh Csabara
Udv Pleh
Kedves Kollegak,
napjainkban folyik Becs varosaban a GLOW meeting (Generative
Linguistics in the Old World).
Ennek reszekent szombaton lesz egy nyelvelsajatitas es a nyelvtan
elmelete cimmel szombaton egy gyules.
Foleg GB jellegu es megalapozottsagu a dolog:
Rizzi
De Villiers
Guasti
Schaner-Wolles
Wexler
9 h 30kor kezdodik a dolog, s kb. 18.00 oraig tart.
A cim: Juridicum, Schottanbastei, 10-16. Vagyis a Becsi Egyetem Jogi
Kara,
ami elegge az egyetem foepulete s a Schottentor metromegallo
kornyeken van.
Mindenkit tiszta szivvel latnak. Ha barmi problema lenne,
hivatkozzatok Martin Prinzhornra es Pleh Csabara
Udv Pleh
Sebeok Tamas professzor (Bloomington, Indiana)
A szemiotika alapjai
cimmel
kurzust tart aprilis 19 es majus 13 kozott.
Kedd-Csutortok, 12.00-14.00
Piarista Koz, II. emelet VII. terem,
Elso ora: aprilis 19.
Szivesen lat egyeb szakmai megkereseseket is:
hazigazdaja: ELTE Altalanos es Alkalmazott Nyelveszeti Tanszeke
Sebeok Tamas professzor (Bloomington, Indiana)
A szemiotika alapjai
cimmel
kurzust tart aprilis 19 es majus 13 kozott.
Kedd-Csutortok, 12.00-14.00
Piarista Koz, II. emelet, VII. terem,
Elso ora: aprilis 19.
Szivesen lat egyeb szakmai megkereseseket is.
hazigazdaja: ELTE Altalanos es Alkalmazott Nyelveszeti Tanszeke
Az MTA Filozo1fiai Inte1zete1nek Nyelvfilozo1fiai Munkacsoportja
1994. a1prilis 18-a1n, he1tfo3n
d.e. 11 o1rakor
idei ma1sodik vitau2le1set tartja az Inte1zet III. emeleti termeiben
(ci1m: Budapest V. Szemere utca 10).
Az u2le1sen Neumer Katalin ``A leopa1rd e1s a fa1jdalom. (Nyelven ki1vu2li
te1nyek a ke1so3i Wittgenstein filozo1fia1ja1ban)'' c. i1ra1sa1t vitatja1k
meg. (A cikk a _Holmi_ 1993/12 sza1ma1ban jelent meg).
A munkacsoport minden e1rdeklo3do3t szeretettel va1r.
Az MTA Filozo1fiai Inte1zete1nek Nyelvfilozo1fiai Munkacsoportja
1994. a1prilis 18-a1n, he1tfo3n
d.e. 11 o1rakor
idei ma1sodik vitau2le1set tartja az Inte1zet III. emeleti termeiben
(ci1m: Budapest V. Szemere utca 10).
Az u2le1sen Neumer Katalin ``A leopa1rd e1s a fa1jdalom. (Nyelven ki1vu2li
te1nyek a ke1so3i Wittgenstein filozo1fia1ja1ban)'' c. i1ra1sa1t vitatja1k
meg. (A cikk a _Holmi_ 1993/12 sza1ma1ban jelent meg).
A munkacsoport minden e1rdeklo3do3t szeretettel va1r
Below is the abstract of a forthcoming target article by:
W. W. Wilkins & J. Wakefield
on:
BRAIN EVOLUTION AND NEUROLINGUISTIC PRECONDITIONS
This article has been accepted for publication in Behavioral and Brain
Sciences (BBS), an international, interdisciplinary journal providing
Open Peer Commentary on important and controversial current research in
the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences.
Commentators must be current BBS Associates or nominated by a current
BBS Associate. To be considered as a commentator for this article, to
suggest other appropriate commentators, or for information about how to
become a BBS Associate, please send email to:
harnad(a)clarity.princeton.edu or harnad(a)pucc.bitnet or write to:
BBS, 20 Nassau Street, #240, Princeton NJ 08542 [tel: 609-921-7771]
To help us put together a balanced list of commentators, please give
some indication of the aspects of the topic on which you would bring
your areas of expertise to bear if you were selected as a commentator.
An electronic draft of the full text is available for inspection by
anonymous ftp according to the instructions that follow after the abstract.
____________________________________________________________________
BRAIN EVOLUTION AND NEUROLINGUISTIC PRECONDITIONS
Wendy K. Wilkins
Department of English
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-0302
atwkw(a)asuacad.bitnet
Jennie Wakefield
Department of Speech and Hearing
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-1908
asjxd(a)asuacad.bitnet
ABSTRACT: This target article presents a plausible evolutionary
scenario for the emergence of the neural preconditions for language
in the hominid lineage. In pleistocene primate lineages there was a
paired evolutionary expansion of frontal and parietal neocortex
(through certain well-documented adaptive changes associated with
manipulative behaviors) resulting, in ancestral hominids, in an
incipient Broca's region and in a configurationally unique junction
of the parietal, occipital, and temporal lobes of the brain (the
POT). On our view, the development of the POT in our ancestors
resulted in the neuroanatomical substrate consistent with the
ability for representations in modality-neutral association cortex
and, as a result of structure-imposing interaction with Broca's
area, the hierarchically structured "conceptual structure." Evidence
from paleoneurology and comparative primate neuroanatomy is used to
argue that Homo habilis (2.5-2 million years ago) was the first
hominid to have the appropriate gross neuroanatomical configuration
to support conceptual structure. We thus suggest that the neural
preconditions for language are met in H. habilis. Finally, we
advocate a theory of language acquisition that uses conceptual
structure as input to the learning procedures, thus bridging the
gap between it and language.
KEYWORDS: biology of language; conceptual structure; evolution;
Homo habilis; language acquisition; neurolinguistics; origin of
language; paleoneurology; preadaptation; sensorimotor feedback
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To help you decide whether you would be an appropriate commentator for
this article, an electronic draft is retrievable by anonymous ftp from
princeton.edu according to the instructions below (the filename is
bbs.wilkins). Please do not prepare a commentary on this draft.
Just let us know, after having inspected it, what relevant expertise
you feel you would bring to bear on what aspect of the article.
The file is also retrievable using archie, gopher, veronica, etc.
-------------------------------------------------------------
To retrieve a file by ftp from an Internet site, type either:
ftp princeton.edu
or
ftp 128.112.128.1
When you are asked for your login, type:
anonymous
Enter password as queried (your password is your actual userid:
yourlogin(a)yourhost.whatever.whatever - be sure to include the "@")
cd /pub/harnad/BBS
To show the available files, type:
ls
Next, retrieve the file you want with (for example):
get bbs.wilkins
When you have the file(s) you want, type:
quit
These files can also be retrieved using gopher, archie, veronica, etc.
----------
Where the above procedure is not available there are two fileservers:
ftpmail(a)decwrl.dec.com
and
bitftp(a)pucc.bitnet
that will do the transfer for you. To one or the
other of them, send the following one line message:
help
for instructions (which will be similar to the above, but will be in
the form of a series of lines in an email message that ftpmail or
bitftp will then execute for you).
JANET users without ftp can instead utilise the file transfer facilities
at sites uk.ac.ft-relay or uk.ac.nsf.sun. Full details are available on
request.
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Below is the abstract of a forthcoming target article by:
Howard Rachlin
on:
SELF-CONTROL: BEYOND COMMITMENT
This article has been accepted for publication in Behavioral and Brain
Sciences (BBS), an international, interdisciplinary journal providing
Open Peer Commentary on important and controversial current research in
the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences.
Commentators must be current BBS Associates or nominated by a current
BBS Associate. To be considered as a commentator for this article, to
suggest other appropriate commentators, or for information about how to
become a BBS Associate, please send email to:
harnad(a)clarity.princeton.edu or harnad(a)pucc.bitnet or write to:
BBS, 20 Nassau Street, #240, Princeton NJ 08542 [tel: 609-921-7771]
To help us put together a balanced list of commentators, please give
some indication of the aspects of the topic on which you would bring
your areas of expertise to bear if you were selected as a commentator.
An electronic draft of the full text is available for inspection by
anonymous ftp according to the instructions that follow after the abstract.
____________________________________________________________________
SELF-CONTROL: BEYOND COMMITMENT
Howard Rachlin
Psychology Department
SUNY at Stony Brook
Stony Brook, NY 11794-2500
HRACHLIN(a)PSYCH.1.PSY.SUNYSB.EDU
ABSTRACT: Self control, so important in the theory and practice of
psychology, has usually been understood introspectively. This
target article adopts a behavioral view of the self (as an abstract
class of behavioral actions) and of self control (as an abstract
behavioral pattern dominating a particular act) according to which
the development of self control control is a molar/molecular
conflict in the development of behavioral patterns. This subsumes
the more typical view of self control as a now/later conflict in
which an act of self control is a choice of a larger but later
reinforcer over a smaller but sooner reinforcer. If at some future
time the smaller-sooner reinforcer will be more valuable than the
larger-later reinforcer, self control may be achieved through a
commitment to the larger-later reinforcer prior to that point.
According to some, there is in the development of self control a
progressive internalization of commitment. There are theoretical
and empirical problems with this view. In two experiments, one with
pigeons choosing between smaller-sooner and larger-later
reinforcers, the other with adult humans choosing between
short-term particular and long-term abstract reinforcer, temporal
patterning of choices increased self control.
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To help you decide whether you would be an appropriate commentator for
this article, an electronic draft is retrievable by anonymous ftp from
princeton.edu according to the instructions below (the filename is
bbs.rachlin). Please do not prepare a commentary on this draft.
Just let us know, after having inspected it, what relevant expertise
you feel you would bring to bear on what aspect of the article.
The file is also retrievable using archie, gopher, veronica, etc.
-------------------------------------------------------------
To retrieve a file by ftp from an Internet site, type either:
ftp princeton.edu
or
ftp 128.112.128.1
When you are asked for your login, type:
anonymous
Enter password as queried (your password is your actual userid:
yourlogin(a)yourhost.whatever.whatever - be sure to include the "@")
cd /pub/harnad/BBS
To show the available files, type:
ls
Next, retrieve the file you want with (for example):
get bbs.rachlin
When you have the file(s) you want, type:
quit
These files can also be retrieved using gopher, archie, veronica, etc.
----------
Where the above procedure is not available there are two fileservers:
ftpmail(a)decwrl.dec.com
and
bitftp(a)pucc.bitnet
that will do the transfer for you. To one or the
other of them, send the following one line message:
help
for instructions (which will be similar to the above, but will be in
the form of a series of lines in an email message that ftpmail or
bitftp will then execute for you).
JANET users without ftp can instead utilise the file transfer facilities
at sites uk.ac.ft-relay or uk.ac.nsf.sun. Full details are available on
request.
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