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					&lt;TD ALIGN="LEFT">&lt;B>Tue, 15 Sep 1998&lt;/B>&lt;/TD>
					&lt;TD ALIGN="RIGHT">&lt;B>Vol. 1.13&lt;/B>&lt;/TD>
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&lt;UL>01. &lt;A HREF="#SUBJECT01">PPM&lt;/A> (Trevor)&lt;BR>
&lt;A NAME="SUBJECT01">&lt;/A>&lt;A HREF="#Contents">Return to Contents&lt;/A>&lt;P>----------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;P>Date: 15 Sep 1998 18:23:55 -0400&lt;BR>
From: Trevor &lt;aki@xs4all.nl>&lt;BR>
Subject: PPM&lt;P>&lt;P>          PPM INFORMATION RELEASE:&lt;P>&lt;BR>
     Recently, a "Perpetual Pattern Machine" was terminated (due to&lt;BR>
     reasignment of computational facilities) after around thirteen hours of&lt;BR>
     apparently successful continual operation.&lt;P>     Auto-morphogenetic and other anti bit-rot processing techniques were&lt;BR>
     used in a series of experiments involving small ecologies of&lt;BR>
     Movable Finite Automata to study resistance to entropic decay in&lt;BR>
     conditions of intense feedback.&lt;P>     The systems investigate the mechanism of continual (non-biological,&lt;BR>
     i.e. non-sexual) evolution in closed systems. Once started these&lt;BR>
     processes are completely deterministic.&lt;P>     Contining the trend towards simplicity, the current series is&lt;BR>
     reduced to parallel sets of basic processesing units variably scanning&lt;BR>
     through the image in an ordered manner (Space-Time Processing).&lt;P>&lt;BR>
     A major problem is the question of proof: Due to a random start&lt;BR>
     (big bang), each "existance" is one of an extremely large set of&lt;BR>
     possible trajectories and each trajectory which has not (yet)&lt;BR>
     degenerated into chaos or repetition may of course do so at any moment&lt;BR>
     in the future. Chaos (as a subjective phenomenon) is fairly easy to&lt;BR>
     recognise -but how does one watch a large number of "existances" for&lt;BR>
     an infinite length of time to see if they are repeating (how does one&lt;BR>
     compare an image with one from three days earlier that looked a bit&lt;BR>
     similar)? How similar must images be in order to be concidered&lt;BR>
     "repetitive" (or how different to be concidered as evolving)?&lt;P>     Initially as a practical measure (in order to improve performance on&lt;BR>
     a fairly slow Amiga 3000) most internal integer functions were&lt;BR>
represented&lt;BR>
     by look-up tables. This gives the additional advantage that the&lt;BR>
underlying&lt;BR>
     conceptual model of the "Turing Machine" becomes more explicit and&lt;BR>
     therefore more easilly integrated into a "Parametrical Space" model&lt;BR>
     so the process becomes more obviously concerned with the transformation&lt;BR>
     of closed ordered sets.&lt;P>     The look-up tables also make more explicit the nature (dimensions) of&lt;BR>
     the spaces involved as well as the transformations concerned and so may&lt;BR>
     therefore form a tentative step towards a "fungible" computer.&lt;P>&lt;P>                                      Institute for Autogenetics&lt;BR>
                                                and Metamorphology&lt;BR>
                                                    Amsterdam, September 1998&lt;P>&lt;P>&lt;BR>
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