Re: [Polyworld-develop] touch suggestions?

[Nicolas Z. <kru...@po...>]

Hi,

this touch idea seems very very interesting in terms of perception vs  
camouflage.
I guess the whole point is to provide a way to gather more  
information about the things that exist in the universe, and to  
provide a possibility to mimick it or play with it (for mating  
purposes, say).
I just wonder if the pleasure/pain is a touch sensation, or just the  
way my brain reacts to other sensations. That would be related to the  
extremeness of other sensastions such as hot or (rough and hard).
As for suggestions for added sensations, I'd say animate/inanimate,  
or at least organic/inanimate. That's what causes the most irrational  
(and therefore reflex-oriented) reactions to things we touch...

As a side note, I hope I'll get something to catch up on you guys on  
the topic of neuron programming pretty soon, I feel a little dumb  
with just my programming skills to help you out...

-- 
Nicolas


On 07 Apr 2006, at 03:07, Larry Yaeger wrote:

> The point of telling everyone this is to solicit suggestions for  
> other sensations that might be appropriate.  Anything come to mind?