Building "Fungus Eaters": Design Principles of Autonomous Agents
Rolf Pfeifer · The MIT Press eBooks · 1996
We describe a set of design principles for building “Fungus Eaters”. “Fungus Eaters” are complete autonomous systems. The goal is to extract and describe in a compact way a large part of the insights which have been acquired in the animats field. The principles have been developed from a cognitive science perspective. Although they represent only a very modest beginning, they make immediately clear what sort of ideas about intelligence and cognition they endorse. They all contrast sharply with classical thinking. Moreover, they provide powerful heuristics for design.