<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Dear John,</div><div><br></div><div> I just read your SASE paper to make a comparison to practopoiesis, as you asked. Interesting paper. Nice work.</div><div><br></div><div> I like your succinct stile, formal and accurate. Your theorems make it clear what you mean by awareness, etc. </div><div><br></div><div> Here is what I can conclude about "A theory of developmental architecture" by Juyang Weng: </div><div><br></div><div>Markov decision process is a T2-system. It does not make a difference whether you have sensors that collect only outside information or you also have sensors collecting internal information. It remains a T2 system. The same holds for actions. Internal actions do not change a T2 into T3 either.</div><div><br></div><div> Therefore, according to practopoietic theory, your theory falls into the category of T2-systems.</div><div><br></div><div> As you know, I laid out arguments that this is not enough to produce intelligent adaptive behavior that matches biological behaving systems. My suggestion would be to find ways to expand it into a T3.</div><div> </div><div><div><div>With best regards,</div></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Danko</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On May 28, 2014, at 2:30 PM, Juyang Weng wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Danko, thank you for the links. You might want to take a look at my Self-Aware and Self-Effecting (SASE)<br>architecture. Your three-traverse idea has some similarity to it, but your theory is not (yet?) supported by fully computational detail<br>as SASE.<br><br>-John<br><br>On 5/28/14 6:58 PM, Danko Nikolic wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Dear all,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I made an effort to make practopoiesis more approachable to a wider audience:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">One: I wrote a short popular article on the implications of practopoiesis for artificial intelligence:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://www.singularityweblog.com/practopoiesis/">http://www.singularityweblog.com/practopoiesis/</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Two: I made a list of the key concepts with a brief explanation of each:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://www.danko-nikolic.com/practopoiesis#Concepts">http://www.danko-nikolic.com/practopoiesis#Concepts</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I hope that this will be helpful.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">With warm greetings from Germany,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Danko Nikolic<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><br>-- <br>--<br>Juyang (John) Weng, Professor<br>Department of Computer Science and Engineering<br>MSU Cognitive Science Program and MSU Neuroscience Program<br>428 S Shaw Ln Rm 3115<br>Michigan State University<br>East Lansing, MI 48824 USA<br>Tel: 517-353-4388<br>Fax: 517-432-1061<br>Email: <a href="mailto:weng@cse.msu.edu">weng@cse.msu.edu</a><br>URL: <a href="http://www.cse.msu.edu/~weng/">http://www.cse.msu.edu/~weng/</a><br>----------------------------------------------<br><br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>
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