SUO: Re: E*T :> ECORD :> Email :> Complaint
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Email :> Complaint 02. <JA, 03 Dec 2003, 09>
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In: E*T :> ECORD.
http://suo.ieee.org/email/thrd6.html#11856
Re: E*T :> ECORD :> Email :> Complaint 01.
http://suo.ieee.org/email/msg11956.html
Matthew, Mike, SUO Group,
I put off thinking about this for a day in order to gain what
perspective I could on the situation. I will try to regard it
from a certain aesthetic/analytic distance, though of course it
is scarcely possible to reach any point of view that might be
claimed as objective, as least, not while the ruddier stuff
runs in my arteries and veins.
In reflecting on the situation in question I find myself drawing
on the several different bases of experience, conceptual frames,
and sources of ideas that I became imbued with over the years,
and I will also try to draw on the smattering of principles
that I've been able to glean so far from the Procedure Doc.
Roughly speaking, my resources will be the systems theory that
I learned in a "systems, simulation, statistics" oriented type
of industrial-organizational mathematical psychology background,
plus a sampler of ideas from old-fashioned cybernetics-flavored
brands of AI.
Here is the first star of an idea that rises above the mental horizon:
Principle of Rational Action
| Knowledge systems are just another level within this same hierarchy,
| another way to describe a system. ... The knowledge level abstracts
| completely from the internal processing and the internal representation.
| Thus, all that is left is the content of the representations and the goals
| toward which that content will be used. As a level, it has a medium, namely,
| knowledge. It has a law of behavior, namely, if the system wants to attain
| goal G and knows that to do act A will lead to attaining G, then it will
| do A. This law is a simple form of rationality -- that an agent will
| operate in its own best interests according to what it knows.
|
| Newell, UTOC, pp. 48-49.
|
| Allen Newell, 'Unified Theories Of Cognition',
| Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1990.
Complete or incomplete, I think I'm done thinking for today.
Jon Awbrey
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