The Emergence of Representation in Autonomous Embodied Agents
Mark H. Bickhard · 1996
A problem of action selection emerges in complex — and even not so complex — interactive agents: What to do next? The problem of action selection occurs equally for natural and for artificial agents — for any embodied agent. The obvious solution to this problem constitutes a form of representation — interactive representation — that is arguably the fundamental form of representation. More carefully, interactive representation satisfies a criterion for representation that no other model of representation in the literature can satisfy, or even attempts to address: the possibility of system detectable