On 21/11/06, Pei Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
That sounds better to me. In general, I'm against attempts to get complete, consistent, certain, and absolute descriptions (of either internal or external state), and prefer partial, not-necessarily-consistent, uncertain, and relative ones --- not because the latters are better, but because they are what we can expected in realistic situations. Also, I'm doubtful about any usage of terms like "axiom" and "proof" outside mathematics.
Okay axiom was used in a very lax way, I apologise. Okay. Change that to statement about the world/agent rather than a statement about the direct way to change the memory, which is used in the first phase of experimentation. I didn't use the word proof though.
So you are proposing an approach to describe memory change by evaluating alternatives, right? Will it be similar to what is usually called "belief change" (for example, see http://www.pims.math.ca/science/2004/NMR/bc.html )?
I wasn't familiar with the belief change literature. So it took me a little time to get the bare bones. It is interesting and I expect there to be some crossover with some of the potential high levels of mechanisms within my system, but at the fundamental level I think the approaches are quite different. For example I stress a more pragmatic view of the worth of a memory change, so how good the system is at solving the problems put to it after the memory change, is more important than internal consistency. And at least from the cursory reading I have done it seems that most belief change lacks details in exactly how to change belief into action. Making beliefs available for logical reasoning is also not a priority of mine, for example instructions on how to solve a physical task need not be stored, that is I am happy for memory changes to be stored procedurally. These views may change after I have read more into it, but in the interests of continuing discussion, I shall put these views forward initially. Will Pearson ----- 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/?list_id=303
