DAVID: I do with guidelines. Semiautonomous means new things and new actions. Let us move on. > > dhw: Guidelines, yes (i.e. what the mechanism can and can't do in the given circumstances). Semiautonomous, no. “Inventive” = new things and new actions.-We are quibbling over a definition:-http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/english/semi-autonomous-Evolution is a continuum and the guidelines fix some limits as contrasted to totally free inventiveness. Constrained invention is the way I look at it.