Essay = attempt
Warning: science fiction ahead
Start with a problem. Solve it with a program. Then look at the program and decide if it's attractive. Change the language until it is. -- John Mccarthy (paraphrased)
Design is the thinking you do before the building. - rpg
Blueprints to execution Vision to blueprints Inverse model is tractable Abstract, ideas, ideal of our intent
Biological modularity: common origin. Example: liver has many functions, not just one
Phenotropics: projection of needs, responses that may not be received by the requestor
Inverse model is not tractable but forward model is. Iterative, agile, artistic process
Reductionist, divide-and-conquer
Swarm design (natural world, stygmurgy, unintentional order) Machine design
God? Neither forward nor inverse models are tractable.
Without evolution, all is lost. - Adrian Thompson
Thompson FPGA circuit evolution story
Design and implementation are inseparable.
Does a thing without a (human) designer have a design? Is design going on? Who is the designer?
If no one can understand them, maybe they don't have a design.
Human and machine design might be mixed in evolutionary design.
Autopoeisis - self-creating, self-organizing. A definition of life.
Allopoeisis - other-creating
Ron Goldman & RPG
Armando Fox - micro-reboots
Applies to homeostasis