Connectionists: practopoiesis

[Danko Nikolic]

Dear John,

  I just read your SASE paper to make a comparison to practopoiesis, as you asked. Interesting paper. Nice work.

  I like your succinct stile, formal and accurate. Your theorems make it clear what you mean by awareness, etc. 

  Here is what I can conclude about "A theory of developmental architecture" by Juyang Weng: 

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.

  Therefore, according to practopoietic theory, your theory falls into the category of T2-systems.

  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.
  
With best regards,


Danko




On May 28, 2014, at 2:30 PM, Juyang Weng wrote:

> Danko, thank you for the links.  You might want to take a look at my Self-Aware and Self-Effecting (SASE)
> architecture.  Your three-traverse idea has some similarity to it, but your theory is not (yet?) supported by fully computational detail
> as SASE.
> 
> -John
> 
> On 5/28/14 6:58 PM, Danko Nikolic wrote:
>> Dear all,
>> 
>> I made an effort to make practopoiesis more approachable to a wider audience:
>> 
>> 
>> One: I wrote a short popular article on the implications of practopoiesis for artificial intelligence:
>> 
>> http://www.singularityweblog.com/practopoiesis/
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Two: I made a list of the key concepts with a brief explanation of each:
>> 
>> http://www.danko-nikolic.com/practopoiesis#Concepts
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I hope that this will be helpful.
>> 
>> With warm greetings from Germany,
>> 
>> Danko Nikolic
>> 
>> 
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