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advantage if we want the robot to do any sort of introspective
learning about objects.
6.2 Distributed systems
Much as processes can be used as a form of representation, they
can also be used in place of actions as primitives for planning.
This is how most of our system works: each behavior can be
considered a process whose order of invocation is determined by
the world. As was seen in the arm experiments involving
pedestals and barriers, the structure of the environment effec-
tively "programs" the robot to take an appropriate path by
triggering various behaviors in a particular sequence. Thus,
instead of consciousl ...