But Will It Scale Up? Not without Representations

But Will It Scale Up? Not without Representations

Beer’s paper devotes much energy to buttressing the walls of Castle Dynamic and dredging its moat in the face of what some of its dwellers perceive as a besieging army chanting “no cognition without representation”. The divide is real, as attested by the contrast between titles such as “Intelligence without representation” (Brooks, 1991) and “In defense of representation” (Markman and Dietrich,...

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My Agent Will Call Your Agent... But Will It Respond?

As Web based E-commerce and component software become more real, interest in software agents has increased. Agents can be viewed as specialized distributed components, offering greater flexibility than traditional components when developing certain applications. Different kinds of agents have different amounts of personality, mobility, interaction, collaboration, persistence and intelligence. T...

Live it up without lighting up.

The tide against the tobacco industry is growing. The World Health Organisation (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), a global public health treaty on tobacco control, has been ratifi ed by 174 WHO Member States covering more than 87% of the world’s population.1 At the recently concluded 15th World Conference on Tobacco or Health in Singapore, the Director General (WHO), Dr Marg...

You may delay, but time will not!