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| -rw-r--r-- | nascent5.js | 17 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | notes.txt | 34 |
2 files changed, 49 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/nascent5.js b/nascent5.js index b07afec..1d9e8ae 100644 --- a/nascent5.js +++ b/nascent5.js @@ -22,7 +22,8 @@ class Properties { } has(type, dest) { for (let p of this.props) - if (p.type == type && p.dest == dest) + if ((p.type == type || isVar(type)) + && (p.dest == dest || isVar(dest))) return true return false } @@ -36,6 +37,9 @@ class Properties { } return false } + hasIsVar() { + return this.has('is','variable') + } } class AbstractData { constructor(from) { @@ -57,6 +61,14 @@ class ArrayData extends Array { } } +// Abstractions? +const VAR_X = new StringData('X') +VAR_X.props.add('is','variable') +// recommend e.g. 'is','variable-rep' when code is designing them, so don't match everything +function isVar(x) { + return x.props && x.props.has('is','variable') +} + // MEMORY // the archivist. Provides for needs of data. Memory is relevent whenever there is // an informational need. @@ -159,7 +171,7 @@ class FunctionData { //) // - place a value in such a place // - retrieve a value from such a place -// data-structures: +// data-structures: (these are like promises of what to do and how to use something) // - make a class definition (collection of variables) // - initialize an object // - set/retrieve properties (variables) @@ -270,6 +282,7 @@ genprophaslines = new FunctionData( // [how do we pull a need out of the list?] // make a habit that plans core behavior +// for some other ideas, see this function in nascent6.js findstepsfor = new FunctionData( 'findstepsfor', /*call*/(need, depth) => { @@ -33,3 +33,37 @@ That is: The hope is the process becomes good at active choice. + + +Ideas for Tenets for a Need-Based Artificial Life <need ordering + addition + code> +Behavior is Life <maybe Life is Behavior That Adapts> +All life has the same core needs. Needs are the reasons to do anything at all. +We need to know what we want when we act. (all behavior has a reason) +We need to be able to learn new things. +We need to be able to make promises on how to behave. (provides for cooperation) +We need to be able to keep our promises. +We need to know how to communicate with others what each of us knows. +We need to freely interact with our friends, our parts, and our community, in ways that we know well. (community is our body) +Information lives with a reason, a purpose. +We need to retain the information we choose to retain. +We need to act to meet our needs. +We need to identify relevent important needs that support our needs. + +We need to be able to try new ways of doing things. +We need to be able to judge what works. + + +What is a full intellect? + A full intellect can both keep something constant in a diverse, changing environment, + and design and build something that functions as well as it does, without access to its own workings. + +What is an intellect? + An intellect is something that keep something constant in a diverse, changing environment, + so long as the environment changes slowly enough for the intellect to learn to adapt to it. + +What basic parts do we expect a full intellect to have? +brainstorming/trial-and-error: the ability to try or consider different things and find ones that work well + simple approaches: exhaustive search, and random trial +meaning representation: the ability to store and work with conceptual information +relevence: the ability to apply concepts and actions more in contexts they are likely to be useful than those they aren't +self-modification: at least part of the system must be fully alterable by the system and generic enough to replace it. <- due to danger, must include controversial needs in decisions |