Seems odd: this is number 70 in this thread, all to explain automata? Really?! My guess is the book is not the best start on understanding Turing Machines, but heck, its not a book about religion, right?
On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 9:18 AM, glen ☢ <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yes, I think so; except the goals need not be underspecified or > contradictory. The condition (or action or assertion) made by one of the > anticipatory agents within the system can be an unambiguous member of the > set defined by the policy. The loopiness comes in because that condition > is defined in reference to the policy that defines it. Perhaps an example > would be "A staff member is an employee (not a contractor) iff that staff > member has all the properties generally thought to belong to employees (as > opposed to contractors)." This is a common ploy used by state tax agencies > to extract extra taxes from corporations. A book keeper in such a company > might assert that some staffer should not be paid as an employee because > they're the only employee who, say, telecommutes. > > The binding/grounding/meaning in such a circular system can be volatile. > But it's not (necessarily) due to being unspecified/vague. I suppose it's > technically ambiguity, multi-valued. The underlings, including _any_ > member of the corporation like owners, board members, *EOs, etc., can use > their influence to knead the corporation-level grounding of the policy in > whatever way they can. And it stays this way until the corporation > officially files a request with the state agency to get a ruling on that > particular condition (telecommuting). Once the state makes the ruling, > then that property (telecommuting) is "hard" bound/grounded one way or the > other. > > > On 07/13/2016 06:58 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > > I'm not sure if this is what you are getting at, but would the following > scenario also be an instance of this: An organization has a set of goals > and let's say they are underspecified or the goals compete with one > another. Now, whenever someone is upset about whatever they might be > upset about (or sees some opportunity to schmooze to their superiors), they > make an appeal, and, in some circumstances, their superiors make reference > to the policies to bring order. In doing so, they produce something of > the form of an inverse problem. "You all should see this is in an > instance of a class of policy X." Let's just say, for the sake of > argument, that is not at all clear or is debatable. Where does that leave > the reader? One probably does not question the superior court, as it > were, because it is stated as fact. Instead I think what happens is that > the underlings search for generating functions to fit the set of > constraints and then socialize the solutions to reduce future r > > isk. That is, they seek (effective) unification that is > deterministic. 1 answer, not 0, not more than 1. But it isn't > unification in the logic programming sense, it just looks that way. > > > > This sort of system leads to each agent making a sort of master equation > of the environment and using it to predict risk (and reward) from above. > Meaning does not exist until the underlings scurry around filling in the > free variables with a self-consistent (and consensus) set of values. I > would claim that in the real world there is usually no shared typing system > except in exceptional cases like the U.S. Judicial system. Mostly it is > just the evolution of anticipatory behaviors from high or low fitness. > Mommy and the kids just try to keep Daddy the tyrant from losing his cool, > and in doing so evolve an effective control system. > > > -- > ☢ glen > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >
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