Thanks for your response, Richard. I'm not on equal footing when it comes to cognitive science, but I do want to comment on one idea.
Richard Loosemore wrote: >Instead, what you do is build the motivational system in such >a way that >it must always operate from a massive base of thousands of small >constraints. A system that is constrained in a thousand different >directions simply cannot fail in a way that one constrain by a single >supergoal is almost guaranteed to fail. If you could formalize this, specifically show how a massive base of thousands of small constraints could have consistently reliable effects on the system it would probably be an important contribution to many disciplines, not just AI theory. But, isn't a formal model of this idea sort of the Holy Grail of complex systems theory in the first place? Keith ----- 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/?member_id=4007604&user_secret=7d7fb4d8
