Michele Pasin / Quotes

Shakey and the sense-model-plan-act cycle

Shakey’s design mirrors the traditional view that an agent should be decomposed into four functional components. This model revolves around the sense-model-plan-act cycle. First, the agent senses the world. Then a model of the world is constructed on the basis of the sensory inputs. Using this model, a plan can then be constructed to guide how the agent will carry out actions in the world.

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#robotics #artificial-intelligence #perception #action

Causal relations are all there is to a belief

Beliefs, for example, are caused by perceptions and together with desires they cause actions. Such causal relations are all that there is to having a belief.

Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle) #functionalism #beliefs #perception #action

Eyes only count photons

all the eye is doing is catching and counting photons. The millions of photoreceptors in our eyes only react to the number of photons they catch. Our brains…

Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) #perception #brain #artificial-intelligence #meaning

What if the brain doesn't represent the world?

Modern neuroscience, psychology, and artificial intelligence often implicitly assume that our senses determine the contents of our conscious experience. The…

Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) #brain #representation #artificial-intelligence #perception

Career change: take conscious action

Recognise what you can and cannot control, and do things with purpose. I cannot change the world around me. I cannot change others. But I do have control over…

Lessons From My Career Change: Five Ways To Make Your Move Sustainable | Guardian Careers | Guardian Professional #things #thought #action #purpose #world

Contemplation instead of action

Finally, the game of life as Western man has been “playing” it for the past century needs less emphasis on practicality, results, progress, and aggression…

The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are #vision #skills #action

Do we create our own identity?

If character has to be built in important ways, could one go further and say that identity itself is not just given, but is something we in some way create…

The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) #self-creation #identity #action