On 2/22/20 8:33 AM, Steven A Smith wrote:
> Thanks for the disambiguation... in my vocabulary/experience I think
> what you are calling "installed triggers" are what I call "heuristics",
Well, for me, a heuristic is an *action* not a trigger. It's a response to a
trigger. A trigger is a circumstance ... a condition that obtains. E.g. in a
programming language, you might have something like if (x==2) then g(x); else
h(x). Here "x==2" would be the trigger and g() or h() are the reactions.
Perhaps h() is a heuristic algorithm and g() is an analytic solution.
Of course, it's entirely plausible to have something like: while (x != 2) {
x=h(x); }, which convolves the trigger with the heuristic. And I suspect
something like that is a normal way to think about heuristics in the
learning/psych sense.
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