08-16-2017, 10:41 PM
Tools for Thinking about Minds: An Ontology for Cognition
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An Ontology for Cognition
Entities, relations, processes
Useful for the study of how minds work
That is, for the study of cognition
What is an autonomous agent
A system embedded in, and part of,
an environment, that
Senses its environment
Acts on it
Over time
In pursuit of its own agenda
So that its actions affect its future sensing
An Agent in its Environment
The agent senses its environment and acts
on it, over time, in pursuit of its own agenda.
It must have built in drives, or motivators,
sensory receptors, and effectors.
Cognition
Cognition will be the term used for the endless
cycle of deciding what to do next.
This use is broader than that typically used in
psychology, which omits perception & action
Procedural Memory
Procedural memory stores procedures
for performing tasks, and sequences thereof
Procedural learning improves performance
of old tasks, learns new ones
Cognitive Processes
Are always cyclic executing through a
continuing sequence of cognitive cycles
May complete during a single cycle
bottom up
May require a number of cycles to
complete multicyclic top down