Omnipotence Without Omniscience: Efficient Sensor Management for Planning

Omnipotence Without Omniscience: E cient Sensor Management for Planning

Classical planners have traditionally made the closed world assumption | facts absent from the planner's world model are false. Incompleteinformation planners make the open world assumption | the truth value of a fact absent from the planner's model is unknown, and must be sensed. The open world assumption leads to two di culties: (1) How can the planner determine the scope of a universally qua...

Omnipotence Without Omniscience: Efficient Sensor Management for Software Agents

Classical planners have traditionally made the closed world assumption -facts absent from the planner’s world model are false. Incomplete-information planners make the open world assumption -the truth value of a fact absent from the planner’s model is unknown, and must be sensed. The open world assump: tion leads to two difficulties: (1) How can the planner determine the scope of a universally ...

Omniscience, Omnipresence, Omnipotence: promises and perils on the road to superhuman, distributed intelligence

The Drama of Divine Providence: Reflections on the Problem of Evil

This article studies the problem of evil in Abrahamic religions and philosophical traditions, and tries to restate their solutions in a contemporary language. The author aims at affirming traditional Abrahamic approaches to theodicy that preserve divine omnipotence, benevolence, and omniscience, but without denying the reality of evil.

Divine Omniscience and Experience A Reply to Alter

According to one antitheist argument, the necessarily omniscient, necessarily omnipotent, and necessarily omnibenevolent Anselmian God does not exist, because if God is necessarily omnipotent it is impossible for Him to comprehend fully certain concepts, such as fear, frustration and despair, that an omniscient being needs to possess. Torin Alter examines this argument and provides three elabor...