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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: Mon Mar 12 09:31:17 CDT 2007
> > Creating states for states sake may not be an end goal, but
it does
> > seem to model the way animals and physics at very deep
levels work.
>
> Yes, but the question remains to be seen if a finite state
> machine is a useful modeling tool for such things; they have
> a narrow definition of "state", too.
Eric reminds me that the engineer's use of state includes
details of analog levels and every detail of a system.
I do have a narrower view, remembering charge is quantitized.
Ultimately, everything is state, of a simpler kind. The analog
level is an illusion of incomplete knowledge. That difference in
definition aside...
I don't think it remains to be seen if finite state machines are
useful modeling tools. They have long been seen as a way to
visualize certain difficult problems, hardware functions and
natural language processors. So what is in question?
Do you mean there are no examples?
Randy
www.newmicros.com
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