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[DPRG] Re: Allen Robots (Will's emotions)
Subject: [DPRG] Re: Allen Robots (Will's emotions)
From: Randy M. Dumse
rmd at newmicros.com
Date: Thu Mar 8 17:33:20 CST 2007
> The term as I understand it is used, for example, when a
> light-seeking behavior pulls the robot towards a goal, while
> an IR avoidance behavior pushes the robot away from
> obstacles, resulting in a wall following behavior that was
> not programmed into the robot. It "emerged" from more
> primitive behaviors acting in combination with a particular
> environment.
Just a thought, without much backing, but I would imagine, that
if you take any of them, you have to take them all. Meaning when
you anthropomorphize about which behaviors are emergent and
which are not, you are using a bias without parallel in nature.
You only accept behaviors as behaviors if they satisfy what you
find pleasing as a human, and not what may, or may not, have
survival value.
You have a very good example of a desireable emergent behavior,
but I suggest the principle should apply, wether we like the
emergent behavior or not.
Randy
www.newmicros.com
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