On Saturday 12 May 2007 09:00:46 am Pei Wang wrote:

> ...My understanding is that ..., your "world model" is, in essence, a bunch 
of "if I
> do this, I'll observe that", which is a summary of experience, or
> interactions between the system and its environment, rather than the
> environment "by itself".

It's both. As Yogi Berra said, "You can observe a lot by just watching." So 
the model is a bunch of "This happened, and thus that happened", where "I did 
this" is a particularly important special case of "this happened". But 
watching someone else do something is key to imitation, which is key to 
learning.

> I see --- it is fine to stress the procedural aspect of concept given
> your context. However, to make your design flexible and general, even
> in that case you will still need some "language" to specify your
> concepts, rather than in a pin-ball-specific manner, right?

Sure -- tho in my case it looks more like a very high-level functional 
reactive programming language than FOPL.

Josh

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