Intelligent Life on Earth

By your definition, might a city said to be intelligent? What about a country? It seems to me that there has to be more to "intelligence" (and its friend consciousness) than mere information transfer between physical artifacts. As something of a materialist, it bothers me to no end that I have absolutely no clue on what that might be.

Might a sufficiently well-organized beehive be intelligent? I'm prepared to let the aggregate-entities question slip, and concentrate on actual organisms. Purposeful behavior and logical reasoning can be faked, but absent somebody to do the faking, I'll happily concede consciousness wherever I find them.

There's a fungus underlying an entire forest, somewhere, that I'd like to question at some length. I hope my great-grandchildren would be able to understand the answers, and carry on the conversation.

one common thread so as to kick off evolution/natural selection on both ends without destroying the original bodies or any single point of contact.

To give a lower real life example, i am totally absorbed, not in the least feel offended by this article 'OOP Concept explained: Polymorphism (Technology)'

Of course, the last part of it doesn't make much sense other than illustrating a psycho mal- function.

//now we loop through the holes and fuck them all with the same Penis

 Penis p = new Man().Penis;

 foreach(Hole h in holes) {
  p.Fuck(h);
}

The recharge time must be considered for P to fill H after TakeALoad (). This waiting loop should be implemented somewhere:

public Recharge (P h) { 
    while(!P.isRecharged) { 
      this.desire ++; 
    } 
    (goto F*k) 
} 

Abstract Classes: If a derived class does not implement all the methods of an interface, then it must be declared abstract.

abstract class Hole { 
protected $plumage; 
protected $migratory; 
abstract public function __construct(); 
abstract public function fsck(); 
abstract public function sing(); 
abstract public function eat(); 
abstract public function setPlumage($plumage); 
abstract public function getPlumage(); 
abstract public function setMigratory($migratory); 
abstract public function getMigratory(); 

Private Methods Can't be Abstract
methods identified as abstract cannot be private; they must be either public or protected. The reason is that an abstract private method is a contradiction in terms. Because an abstract class has undefined methods it cannot be instantiated ( it only exists to be the parent of a derived class). A class with abstract private methods could never be implemented because private methods cannot be inherited. The same reasoning would apply to a final abstract methods.

Note: recall that a final method cannot be changed in a derived class. An abstract method cannot be final because it must be overridden - i.e., changed.

How does a pure abstract class, with no defined methods, differ from an interface? An interface may not have data members or a constructor.

Interface or Pure Abstract Class?
there are only syntactic differences between interfaces and pure abstract classes, but when should you use one rather than the other? In general, it's probably better to use an interface than a pure abstract class because of the flexibility of interfaces. PHP doesn't allow multiple inheritance for classes; a child class may have only one parent class. However, you can implement any number of interfaces.

It makes more sense to use abstract classes when there is a mix of concrete and abstract methods. You can provide an implementation where identical, derived class behavior is expected, and you can provide an abstract method where behavior will differ. You could, of course, ignore methods for which you expect the behavior of derived classes to diverge, but by declaring a method abstract you ensure that it will be implemented in any derived class

Still my question to the original author of 'OOP explained' is this:

but can you explain to me, why Hole is declared an abstract class but seldom do prgrammers think of the need to add an abstract layer for the Penis class?

If we realized that in a more classical sense: Clitoris extends Phallus as well. Now we may be look at the graduate level material...

Other worth noting point of view :

There are other types of polymorphism. In particular the compile time polymorphism [ as opposed to runtime ]. C++ Templates that let programmer 'write dick function that will not only work with any hole but don't spend a lot of time fumbling to get it in the right hole during the main event...

I beg your pardon if you consider this digression a bit far stretching to link it with 'the intelligent life on earth'. I hope to grasp OOP concept at a new substantial level of sophistication so as to gain a true understanding about programming.

Recognizing a creature's capacity to act might take some imagination. It was only recently recognized that trees release ketones into the air when attacked by beetles, which leads nearby trees step up their defenses. Redwoods drop branches on smaller neighboring trees, crushing them. Truffles feed chemicals into the roots of oaks they draw nutriment from.

Slow creatures' primary sensory apparatus might be unfamiliar. Varying magnetic fields and air pressure might be more meaningful than light and sound (which those both are, really). An aspen forest (which is a single organism) could be, in effect, a long-wave radio telescope. If aspens happened to have developed intelligence they might know a lot more astronomy than we do. That truffle could be farming oaks, very carefully and deliberately.

Can you think of a way to test whether a slow organism is intelligent within a single human lifetime? To assume it's not is no more scientific than to assume it is.

The first paragraph in this article is the best poem I read this morning in my RSS feed, and I get a user-selected poetry feed as part of that. I was confused when I looked at the source title. ;)

i'm currently writing this up.

intelligence is a positive-feedback loop of multiple orders of differentiation on information.

it doesn't matter if that intelligence is implemented in a brain or in a tree - it's still fucking intelligence, and it's intelligence of an order and magnitude of simplicity so extreme that ironically we don't have the intelligence to spot it.

which is why i am so pissed off at genetic modifications. it's truly fucking with the intelligence of nature (differentiation - natural selection - of information - DNA - applied over absolutely aeons) that created it.

we are already seeing the fuckups made by the dickheads who started the genetic modifications to soya being magnified by 'differentiation' i.e. the dna gets unpacked by pollenisation and the difference between the "original" dna and the "bastardised" version gets 'zipped up' and doesn't quite fit - and the differences get massively amplified.

now we have gut bacteria incorporating that bastardised dna into its own.

and - this is the best bit: those stupid dickhead drug companies are incorporating their toxic chemicals into the DNA of plants. cross-pollenise that across the world and you'll end up poisoning and killing anyone who eats plants.

i look forward to the solution of having to clean up after drug companies genetic modification experiments get out-of-hand.

europe and asia having to do high altitude flyovers over the united states, napalming the entire country to the bedrock, and turning the entire united states continent into a desert, in order to save the rest of the planet. the only way to get rid of the toxic DNA is either nuclear weapons or napalm.

and napalm can at least be targetted and doesn't have so much lasting effects.

anyone disagree? anyone got any alternative solutions, other than to kill the directors of drugs companies?