Pei, As part of my ongoing AGI education, I am beginning to study NARS in some detail. As has been discussed recently here, you define intelligence as: "Intelligence is the capability of an information system to adapt to its environment while operating with insufficient knowledge and resources." In later discussion about an adaptive system, you introduce the phrase "it attempts to improve its performance in carrying out the tasks". This would seem to be an important further specification. Would it be accurate for my own understanding to rephrase your definition to be: "Intelligence is the capability of a task-performing information system to adapt to its environment while operating with insufficient knowledge and resources" where "task-performing" means that the system's purpose is the performance of one or more simultaneously active "tasks" where a task is defined in terms of a goal state and a (perhaps approximate) method for measuring whether the goal state has been achieved? If "goal state" is not a good way to describe tasks in the sense you intend, could you explain a little bit about your definitions of "carrying out the tasks" and "improve its performance"? Sorry if this seems like a trivial issue, I'm just trying to understand as clearly as possible how you define the goals for the NARS project.
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