World view and learning systems

✍ Scribed by Walter Fritz

• Book ID: 103955505
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 587 KB
• Volume: 10
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0921-8890
• DOI: 10.1016/0921-8890(92)90011-m

✦ Synopsis

Fritz, W., World view and learning systems, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 10 (1992) 1-7.

We intent to show how the observation of the processes going on within an artificial goal seeking and learning system (artificial LS) changes the world view, and therefore the philosophy, of the human observer. We start with a note on anthropomorphism, since we will have to use, in a special sense, many terms which are normally related to the human mind. Then we explain the artificial LS which we have built within a computer (see Fritz et al. 1989). Although this is a particular case, nevertheless the system shows some properties, which we believe are common to all natural and artificial LS's. We observe in detail the processes of sensing, of abstracting concepts and the selection of goals. Comparing these wtih the best known philosophies results in a new and somewhat different world view.