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Agent migration, and machines joining or leaving the CogPrime cluster. So, at the Unit level, attention allocation in CogPrime has two aspects: how MindAgents and Tasks receive attention from CogPrime, and how Atoms receive attention from different MindAgents and Tasks. The topic of this Section is the fo

latter situation is disallowed on the software level, and is assumed in discussions not to occur. Sonic Atoms have natural names. For instance. the Schemallode corresponding to the ele- mentary schema function + may quite naturally be named "+". The NumberNode corresponding to the number .5 may naturally be

hat ExecutionLink X A B ExecutionLink2 A B means: X so that ExecutionLink A X B ExecutionLink3 A B means: X so that ExecutionLink A B X Finally, a Schemallode may be associated with a structure called a Graph. Where S is a Schemallode, Graph(S) (x,y): ExecutionLink S x y ) Sometimes, the graph of a Sche

hich data and procedure are explicitly identical, and there is just one new active data structure in place of the distinction between AtomSpace and MindAgents Where on this continuum does the "mere learning" end and the "real self-modification" start? In this chapter we consider some mechanisms for "adva

ilation 319 schema learning the learning of schemata carrying out cognitive processes in more specialized, context-dependent ways than the general MindAgents do. Eventually, once a CogPrime instance becomes sufficiently complex and advanced, these cognitive schema may replace the MindAgents altogether, l

plementation, the system can still reason about its use of different mind dynamics by considering each MindAgent as a virtual Procedure with a real Schemallode attached to it. This can lead to some valuable learning, with the obvious limitation that in this approach the system is thinking about its MindAgen

idual cognitive processes. The CogPrime design gravitates more toward the latter approach. though also with some specific mechanisms within various MindAgents; and efforts have been made to have these specific mechanisms modulated by the generic attention allocation structures and dynamics wherever possibl

scribed earlier. When an Atom is encountered, it looks into the AtomTable to evaluate the object. In the case that a Schema refers to an ungrounded Schemallode (that is not defined by a ComboTree as defined in Chapter 19), and an appropriate EvaluationLink value isn't in the AtomTable, there's an evaluatio

links that could simply be found by the pattern matcher when trying to find variable assignments to satisfy (El, E2, E3, E4}. 36.4.1 Breakdown into MindAgents To make this sort of PLN dynamic work, we require a number of MindAgents to be operating "ambiently" in the background whenever inference is occurr

On the other hand, given a ConceptNode C involved in inferred ExecutionLinks of the form ExecutionLink C Ai Bi i-1, .. ,n one may wish to find a Schemallode so that the corresponding Schemallode will fulfill this same set of ExecutionLinks. It may seem surprising at first that a ConceptNode might be inv

d effort management frameworks attempt to enforce this, via minimizing the amount of effort spent by the system in getting to a certain conclusion. MindAgents operating primarily on one kind of knowledge (e.g. MOSES, PLN) may for a time seek to follow the shortest paths within their particular correspondin

by the quest of figuring out which procedures can be expected to achieve a certain goal in a certain sort of context. • Grounded Schemallode: See Schemallode, Grounded. • Hebbian Learning: An aspect of Attention Allocation, centered on creating and updating HebbianLinks, which represent the simultaneous