Artificial Life - introduction

[@EnchiridionYT]

To find the other robots in the football field, I would say geographically sourced reference information, e.g. knowing where your goal is and from which direction you came from before, would allow you to know which side you are on. Other reference points such as colors in the jerseys of the robots or a slight detail in the goal might help you discern between different goals. In general, finding as many reference points to differentiate both sides of the game will enable you to see them as distinct and take better decisions.

[@Maciej-Komosinski]

If only it was so easy! But the example says "a perfectly symmetrical football playing field and identical players" (as in the picture), so one cannot distinguish one side of the field from the other. "Geographically sourced reference information, e.g. knowing where your goal is" is obviously not available, because where your goal is is the question. "From which direction you came from before" is a good try but I mentioned noise from your sensors, so the robot could not rely on rotations of its wheels to track its movement, its camera could have been temporarily obscured, there is no global or absolute reference, etc. Hence perceptual aliasing problem 🤔

[@MadWizard38]

@@Maciej-Komosinski Thank you for your response.

[@MadWizard38]

Thank you.

[@JP-xm3qf]

Thank you so much Prof. Komosinski, these are amazing videos!, just what I have been looking for.

[@krystianmoras1797]

Since we consider individual cells to be "life", are animals and plants "life" or just a system of cells?

[@Maciej-Komosinski]

This is the question of whether the property of life propagates up the chain of organization and complexity. But consider a huge number of unorganized cells that were just randomly gathered in one place. They are "life", but their collection itself is not. So for each system we need to ask the same questions I mention in the video - it does not suffice to be composed of living entities to be alive.

[@dembol97]

Life - śmiertelna chorob przenoszona drogą płciową

[@Maciej-Komosinski]

"Life is a fatal sexually transmitted disease". Another famous is "Life is a form of the existence of protein" (życie to forma istnienia białka) www.tekstowo.pl/piosenka,skaldowie,nie_ma_szatana.html

[@Geekvizyon]

First comment !!(hahahah)