[eu-gene] Generative or not?

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 From my point of view 'reactivity' and 'interactivity' are relations 
between two
entities.  They are both relations of the same nature, the difference between
them is that one of them is asymmetric (reactivity) and the other symmetric
(interactivity).

Thus if A is reactive to B and B is reactive to A, there's a relation of
interactivity between them.

As for defining the meaning of the relation, I thought of a statement which is
quite strong... but well, it's easier for me to learn if I make errors, hehe:

A is reactive to B if and only if B can activate A.
This means that there's the possibility of B creating reactions from A, 
by some
mean.
This applied to interactivity would mean that both entities can unviel 
reactions
on one another.


I still think this statement can be applied to entities itself (because
interactivity is the relation).  But we can say that something is interactive
if there is the possibility of mantaining an interactive relation.

Well, I don't think I got very far, but writing this makes me think about it.


Quoting Davide Morelli <info at davidemorelli.it>:

>> I guess interactive/reactive is a differerent question than only 
>> "can computers perform humanlike conversation".
>>
>
> I think that we can only decide if an entity is interactive if it 
> performs as you expect an interactive entity to perform.
>
> I think the differences between reactive and interactive are:
> 1) the response of an interactive entity can introduce "new 
> information" (you can't always predict the answer)
> 2) an interactive entity can start a new thread by its own
>
> an algorithm is always deterministic but it can have an unpredictable 
> behaviour (if we feed random generators with data out of our control, 
> like Time.Now.Ticks or such), so if can give "new information", the 
> problem is making it capable of giving new informations coherent with 
> the context (that is being creative?)
>
>> Basically Turing test is about can one differentiate computer from 
>> humans. But in the question interactive/reactive
>> even humans can fail. I know quite a many people who are not interactive.
>>
>
> :-)
> ...how true!
>
> ciao,
> davide
>
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>
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