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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: Fri Mar 9 13:40:44 CST 2007
> I think what we are doing is "analyzing" which robot
> behaviors are "programmed" and which are "emergent." To
> "anthropomorphize" is to apply human motivations to
> non-humans, which I don't think anyone is doing here.
Fair enough. Maybe I got it wrong. I was.
Here's what I was thinking I'd heard. Someone had described a
twitch in the camera, and said it was an emergent behavior (as
in not deliberately programmed). You (dpa) offered a wall
following behavior that emerged from two other behaviors, but it
was specifically programmed to be a wall follower. So I thought
the comparison was that the later was a better example of
emergence because it was useful.
Actually I first jumped on the example as really good, because
that was a useful outcome. But my post was about my rethinking
that both behaviors, if not explicitly programmed to occur, were
emergent. Maybe I shouldn't prefer the later, just because as a
human I see something more useful in it. While I see a camera
twitch to be something like a facial tick, a sign of mental
disorder.
When I was talking about anthropomorphising, I was talking more
about my own journey thinking through this. I was using the
"you" because I thought we were all on the same journey. My
apologies. I spent a lot of money on a marriage consellor to
learn the word "you" is often inflamatory. I should have
remembered, and not rushed my reply last night.
Randy
www.newmicros.com
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