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plemented in them. My own thinking is mostly shaped by the ideas of social agency, by the Italian computer scientist Cristiano Castelfranchi, and by Aaron Sloman. > isnt that in your words just one of the stories we tell ourselves.? why is it not merely chemicals I would say that a goal is part of a "softwa
on decisions so that the preferred world state becomes more likely. For instance, a corporation is an agent in this sense, and a cat is too. Perhaps George Church would say that cells can have goals, too. A Roomba cleaning robot is a particularly good example: when it cleans the room, it has no goal, because
plemented in them. My own thinking is mostly shaped by the ideas of social agency, by the Italian computer scientist Cristiano Castelfranchi, and by Aaron Sloman. > isnt that in your words just one of the stories we tell ourselves.? why is it not merely chemicals I would say that a goal is part of a "softwar
on decisions so that the preferred world state becomes more likely. For instance, a corporation is an agent in this sense, and a cat is too. Perhaps George Church would say that cells can have goals, too. A Roomba cleaning robot is a particularly good example: when it cleans the room, it has no goal, because
ool, but I never went due to spending most of my non-work time with my kids, who until recently were too young for that sort of thing...) *** Dr. Aaron Sloman http://www.cs.bham.ac.uktaxs/ A friend of Minsky's, a 70-something cognitive science / math / Al guy from the UK. I always thought he was a deeper
ol full of synthetic organisms and probably could. No PhD, but that's sort of a quirk, he's certainly a beyond-PhD-level lab researcher... *•* Dr. George Church http://arep.med.harvard.edu/gmc/ @Harvard ... I never met him, but he works on synthetic biology and Kent knows him well says he's awesome Dr. Ed
cool, but I never went due to spending most of my non-work time with my kids, who until recently were too young for that sort of thing...) at Dr. Aaron Sloman http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/—axs/ A friend of Minsky's, a 70-something cognitive science / math / AI guy from the UK. I always thought he was a deepe
l full of synthetic organisms and probably could. No PhD, but that's sort of a quirk, he's certainly a beyond-PhD-level lab researcher... *** Dr. George Church http://arep.med.harvard.edu/gmc/ @Harvard ... I never met him, but he works on synthetic biology and Kent knows him well says he's awesome *** D
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