Re: Paper by ~MM on distributed self-awareness


"feedbackdroids" <feedbackdroids@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I wish you had addressed the paper, rather than what wasn't in
the paper.

http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~mm/amcas.pdf Mitchell, M. (2001).
"Analogy-making as a complex adaptive system"
(came after the 1993, "Analogy-Making as Perception")

"This paper describes a computer program, called Copycat,
that models how people make analogies. It might seem odd
to include such a topic in a collection of papers mostly
on the immune system. However, the immune system is one
of many systems in nature in which a very large collection
of relatively simple agents, operating with no central
control and limited communication among themselves,
collectively produce highly complex, coordinated, and
adaptive behavior. Other such systems include the brain,
colonies of social insects, economies, and ecologies.
The general study of how such emergent adaptive behavior
comes about has been called the study of
"complex adaptive systems"."

SH: I used google to investigate that man other people had
written about self-awareness and emergence. Her usage
seems to be fairly standard. Maybe you think it is too loose.

homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/ldixon/cisa/files/potgieter-06-03-23.pdf

"In our research and technology, we are exploiting
self-awareness in order to engineer emergence in
complex adaptive systems. A complex adaptive system
learns from and adapts to its dynamically changing
environment. Such a system achieves self-awareness
by using an observation mechanism to observe its
own behavior and to update an internal model. This
self-awareness is then used to adapt its own behavior
in response to the ever-changing environment. This
engineering process "emerges" and is called emergent
engineering."

Regards,
Stephen


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