I can't speak for Minsky, but I would wonder what advantage would there be for having only one agent? I think he talks about the disadvantages. How is it going to deal with naturally different sorts of management problems and information? It seems like it's just a better aproach to have a system that has several different resources working together. BTW, Minsky has gone from calling them agents to calling them resources in _The Emotion Machine_. andi
On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 19:31:38 -0500, J. Storrs Hall, PhD. wrote > Not at all. the agent that does the pointing is just a "build a > deck" agent > (or, more likely, a "society of deck") that gets activated when deck- > building is the thing to do. > > I don't know Minsky's ultimate take on the subject, but I don't see > any problem with putting one agent in charge of the whole business, > especially for the duration of a specific task, as long as it isn't > supposed to have any more capabilities per se than any other agent. > > Josh > > On Friday 09 March 2007 07:36, Pei Wang wrote: > > On 3/9/07, J. Storrs Hall, PhD. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If I understand Minsky's Society of Mind, the basic idea is to have the > > > tools be such that you can build your deck by first pointing at the saw > > > and saying "you do your thing" and then pointing at the hammer, etc. The > > > tools are then in turn made of little guys who do the same to their > > > tools, ad infinitum (or at least ad neuronium). > > > > This understanding assumes a "you" who does the "pointing", which is a > > central controller not assumed in the Society of Mind. To see > > intelligence as a toolbox, we would have to assume that somehow the > > saw, hammer, etc. can figure out what they should do in building the > > deck all by themselves. > > > > Pei > > ----- > This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email > To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: > http://v2.listbox.com/member/?list_id=303 ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?list_id=303
