Epstein Secrets

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r robot movement, may be supplied with a knob that can take on values corresponding to multiple possible movements. Following a metaphor suggested by Douglas Hofstadter [Hof96], MOSES learning covers both “knob twiddling” (setting the values of knobs) and “knob creation.” MOSES is invoked within CogPrime in a number