Jim,
If "only" bothers you I'll remove it. No problem. I tried to emphasize that there is one squirrell and he is in one position at any particular instant of time. And at another instant he is in some other position, and so on. And that is what I mean when I say that the squirrell is moving. Mind the fact that this is multi-disciplinary, and people talk differently in different disciplines. Communication is a real serious problem we have to face. Of course he can be moving one leg one way and another the other way and minding a nearby tree in case he has to jump, all at the same time. All that, I call behavior. I see behavior as an algorithm, composed of all the signals that the brain sends to the muscles. At one instant, the brain is sending a certain combination of signals. At the next, it is sending a different combination. These signals, and the resulting contractions of the muscles, determine the successive positions of the squirrel. I didn't say a word about how those control signals come to be. I didn't say that the signals are given a-priori or for ever fixed. But I have to build a machine, this is an AGI blog. So my next step would be to ask how those signals are determined - they are determined because they are there - what do the depend on - they must depend on something because they change. The brain does this. Sergio From: Jim Bromer [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 8:23 PM To: AGI Subject: Re: [agi] The 2 Tests of AGI - generalizability & creativity No it is not "only one behavior". You are again using exaggerated language. (I tried to explain that to you before.) It is "one behavior" in the sense that it is not some other behavior, but to simplify to the point to saying that it is -only one - behavior is really unacceptable. If he is oscillating and dithering as he climbs the tree then couldn't we say that it is a combination of behaviors? This kind of just this and nothing more kind of characterization always bothers me because the world, human behavior, animal behavior, the universe is not -just one thing- except of course that it is in the totality of the complexity of all that it is. On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Sergio Pissanetzky <[email protected]> wrote: But when the squirrel reacts, does it or does it not have only one behavior? Or are you implying that it may climb two trees at the same time? Whatever that behavior is, I don't care, he may dither, oscillate, anything you want, but it does only one thing. He may have considered all options, places to hide, whatever you want. But then, it starts doing only one thing. Which he may change almost immediately if something else comes to attention, but it is only one thing. Sergio AGI | <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/18883996-f0d58d57> | <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; ad2> Modify Your Subscription <http://www.listbox.com> ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-c97d2393 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-2484a968 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
