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r the latter are learned via MOSES or via some other means. The textual realization of Combo resembles LISP with less syntactic sugar. Internally a Combo program is represented as a program tree. • Composer: In the PLN design, a rule is denoted a composer if it needs premises for generating its conse

ve its fingers to pick up a cup, coordinating its movements with its visual perceptions. It's certainly possible to represent this sort of thing in Combo, but Combo may be an awkward tool. However, if one represents low-level procedures like this using another method, e.g. learned cell assemblies in a

the question of programs in what programming language, and in this context we have made a fairly traditional choice, using a special language called Combo that is essentially a minor variant of LISP, and supplying Combo with a set of customized primitives intended to reduce the length of the typical p

Press, 1997. EFTA00624120 References 345 Ede93. Gerald Edelman. Neural darwinism: Selection and reentrant signaling in higher brain function. Neuron, 10, 1993. Elm91. J. Elman. Distributed representations, simple recurrent networks, and grammatical structure. Machine Learning, 7:195-226, 1991.

r the latter are learned via MOSES or via some other means. The textual realization of Combo resembles LISP with less syntactic sugar. Internally a Combo program is represented as a program tree. • Composer: In the PLN design, a rule is denoted a composer if it needs premises for generating its conse

p the rules might profitably be ported into the Atomspace as ImplicationLinks. • Representation Building: A stage within MOSES, wherein a candidate Combo program tree (within a deme) is modified by replacing one or more tree nodes with alternative tree nodes, thus obtaining a new, different candidate

, 1997. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013260 References 345 Ede93. Gerald Edelman. Neural darwinism: Selection and reentrant signaling in higher brain function. Neuron, 10, 1993. Elm91. J. Elman. Distributed representations, simple recurrent networks, and grammatical structure. Machine Learning, 7:195-226, 1991. E

d up the rules might profitably be ported into the Atomspace as ImplicationLinks. Representation Building: A stage within MOSES, wherein a candidate Combo program tree (within a deme) is modified by replacing one or more tree nodes with alternative tree nodes, thus obtaining a new, different candidate p

her the latter are learned via MOSES or via some other means. The textual realization of Combo resembles LISP with less syntactic sugar. Internally a Combo program is represented as a program tree. e Composer: In the PLN design, a rule is denoted a composer if it needs premises for generating its conseq