You can try to use stigmergy as if it were an abstraction that can be seen as part of a human-like intelligence but then you would, for example, be forced to declare that the more abstract parts of the programming were the primitives that were not changing due to the memories of events and the integration of those event-memories. But, since you would want a secondary abstraction-generation system be something that could be learned you would have to reach further into the abstractions of the abstractions of the programming to find the truly stigmergic part. It is an interesting philosophical exercise but can it be used to lead to something new? Jim Bromer
On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 10:31 AM, Jim Bromer <[email protected]> wrote: > The definition of stigmergy in Wikipedia is that, "It produces > complex, seemingly intelligent structures, without need for any > planning, control, or even direct communication between the agents. As > such it supports efficient collaboration between extremely simple > agents, who lack any memory, intelligence or even individual awareness > of each other." > So while Facebook, for example, is designed to work based on human > responses it does also retain 'marks' which are used to determine a > range of actions that can be subsequently taken in response. However, > communication between the human agents, who have stores of memories, > is the whole reason Facebook has succeeded. Can we look at part of a > distributed active system, even one that relies on human IO, and say > that part of it is stigmergic? OK, but the next question is why? What > can you do with that point of view? I think (it is obvious that) human > beings are sometimes reacting without fully realizing what is going on > and instead base their responses on prevailing commonalities of > insight (like prevailing memes). This kind of reaction might be > likened to a stigmergic reaction. Subsequent interactions can then be > used to refine the first attempts to understand what is going on (or > what someone else is trying to say.) So perhaps by looking at > foundational or simple methods that can combine stigmergy with more > traditional AI methods so that stigmergic reactions can be integrated > with previous reactions (for example successive statements) someone > might be able to gain a little more insight in AGI. However, this > implies that simple reactions must be context-sensitive to different > combinations of events and they have to be sensitive to hidden parts > that need to be inferred and discovered in order to appreciate special > meanings (or to invoke special reactions) related to individuation of > the agents. So I can see one way how this extension of the definition > of stigmergy might be used to yield some novel experimental results. > If I only had the time... ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
