YLIKOSKI@FINFUN.BITNET (06/11/88)
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 88 02:31 EDT From: YLIKOSKI%FINFUN.BITNET@MITVMA.MIT.EDU Subject: the brain To: AILIST@AI.AI.MIT.EDU X-Original-To: @ailist, YLIKOSKI In AIList Digest V7 #5, Ken Laws writes: >Are my actions fully determined by external context, my BDI state, >and perhaps some random variables? Yes, of course -- what else is there? Don't forget the machinery which carries out yor actions - the brain, the neurological engine. Its way of operating seems to differ from person to person - think of Einstein vs. a ballet primadonna. Remember the structure of a typical expert system - in addition to the rule base and the data there is the inference engine. Antti Ylikoski