On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Piaget Modeler <[email protected]> wrote:
> Does your adaptive control concept have anything to do with ACT-R > (Adaptive Control of Thought - Rational) Sorry to jump in here but no, at least that's what my limited adaptive engineering education tells me. But I do have a question about the "adapters" here, how is adaptive control going to design a tool, ever? I don't want to start lecturing again but it looks to me like tool construction (more generally, science) depends on a) an instinct to experiment, trial and error, fantasy and even wishful thinking b) on the compositionality of the world, which includes emergence: you can break a stick or straw but not 10 or 1000 of them. This compositionality essentially voids all statistical approaches, and I would include adaptive control in statistics, essentially if someone started putting together straw after straw an adaptive controller would start screaming louder and louder "somebody stop that lunatic, it is an exercise in insanity". Having said that, and repeating myself somewhat, I think any "grounded" research program is well worth it, even though the OP informs us that for the time being he hasn't plugged-in "his" grounding. The particular EM bit sounds somewhat arcane, the proof however remains in the pudding. Finally, there is hardly anyone who wants new chip designs than me, obviously the problem remains manufacturing and financing such manufacturing advances, otherwise I am quite sure there lots of people who are looking into new chip designs, including our friends and Cognimem, memristors etc. For my part I am fooling around with an FPGA just to finetune my intuitions, but can't imagine educating myself one way or the other all the way to chip innovator. AT ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
