Re: Perdurantist planning problems (was: RE: RE: SUO: Re: BallotComment)
Pat,
I wasn't asking for either an en- or a per- approach. I was asking
for both (in separate modules, of course).
> Now that Adam and Matthew seem to be converging on a mutual
> acceptance of a spatiotemporal ontology which descibes change in
> terms of atemporal assertions about temporal parts, and since there
> seems to be no chorus of protest from the endurantists at this
> flagrant disregard for their philosophical scruples (Chris Menzel?
> Mike Gruninger? Are you there?), allow me to mention one severely
> practical problem with this approach.
>
> There is a well-entrenched tradition of 'action planning' in AI which
> thinks of a dynamic world as moving through states under the control
> of 'actions'....
Yes, this is a very important technique which is valuable for many
reasons. I would be very unhappy if I couldn't use this approach
when I needed to.
John Sowa