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Topic: RE: Self-Knowledge

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Val Bykoski valvtek.com January 20^th 2004 04:55:34	RE: Self-Knowledge ( Posts: 2; New Posts: 2 ) [ See: ComDig 2004.03 ] An intersting issue. An analogy is with computers. Advanced computers have so called control memory, a vehicle to control computer itself. It is, though, a risky business: e.g., a change of the controls on-the-fly may easily lead to unpredictable catastrophic results. So, in such computers the direct control and control of controls is separated in time. At the same time, the modification of controls based on the accumulated experience is beneficial to the overall system, so multi-level control-of-control-of-control... systems seems to be reasonable trend for increasingly complex systems. Any comments? cheers, val

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January 20^th 2004 04:55:34

RE: Self-Knowledge

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An intersting issue. An analogy is with computers. Advanced computers have so called control memory, a vehicle to control computer itself. It is, though, a risky business: e.g., a change of the controls on-the-fly may easily lead to unpredictable catastrophic results. So, in such computers the direct control and control of controls is separated in time. At the same time, the modification of controls based on the accumulated experience is beneficial to the overall system, so multi-level control-of-control-of-control... systems seems to be reasonable trend for increasingly complex systems. Any comments? cheers, val

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N.S. Sridharan infinisriprodigy.net February 4^th 2004 07:35:28	NEW RE: Self-Knowledge In computer architecture, you could do this with just two levels. If the second level is "interpretive" or "open code" it can control the next level (compiled level) and also serve to control and modify itself. Reflexive architectures like this are used in "multi agent" technology - agents that interact, communicate as well as learn. Interesting question is what is the self-knowledge of these agents? They also learn both from reflection (analysis of experiential records) as well as interactions with the environment consisting of other agents as well as the physical environment. The reflection architecture turns out to be one and the same whether looking at records of interaction or examining one's own "self".

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February 4^th 2004 07:35:28

NEW RE: Self-Knowledge

In computer architecture, you could do this with just two levels. If the second level is "interpretive" or "open code" it can control the next level (compiled level) and also serve to control and modify itself. Reflexive architectures like this are used in "multi agent" technology - agents that interact, communicate as well as learn. Interesting question is what is the self-knowledge of these agents? They also learn both from reflection (analysis of experiential records) as well as interactions with the environment consisting of other agents as well as the physical environment.

The reflection architecture turns out to be one and the same whether looking at records of interaction or examining one's own "self".

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