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@@ -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 |