"The IDEA of Smalltalk derived from the IDEA of Simula; the philosophy and ideas of Englebart, Bush, Sutherland; the metaphor of cellular biology, and undoubtedly more. Alan Kay coalesced those influences and led the team that implemented the team that actually created the language at Xerox PARC."
For example, I don't see analogs of cytokines, hormones, or neurotransmitters in Smalltalk or any computing systems today. The closest that comes to mind are functional reactive programming systems, e.g. game platforms tied to a physics engine. The idea that top-down intent matters is preposterous if the motivation is biology, a massively-parallel bottom-up phenomena that involves physical stuff. Marcus ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
