"Bald Eagle" <cre### [at] netscapenet> wrote:

> I have lost my entire paper library, and would like to find a copy of Asimov's
> tale of the goose who laid the golden egg.  It's brilliantly written, and
> following up on your speculation, you'd find a very interesting read.  :)

I just read a summary of Asimov's tale - very funny!

Personally I think intelligence is a ubiquitary phenomenon and is easy to create

track. E.g. far senses like vision are needed - how to implement those?
In nature you had cellular caves with light sensitive cells and an information
transport. If you are a flexible noble metal, you can tempoarily build
oxygen-based semiconductor layers and so on.

Anyway - if you interact with an environment, at first you have to transform
yourself constantly, adapting surface layers (more normals than pigments in
povray?) and secondly you move by liquifying parts of your structure (even more
normals!)
This is, what I want to see in a good material...

> Excellent work.
> I agree with Stephen - if those are "failed" attempts... :O

Here is a better attempt - not necessarily pretty, but imho a bit more
plausible...

Norbert

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