3 FINDING ORDER IN THE WORLD
Detecting regularities in the environment is a necessary step for an agent to anticipate the consequences of its own actions, so that a regular environment is a prerequisite for intelligent behaviour. There are various important limitations to any methods for pattern recognition, and they pose limits to what we can expect of intelligent agents too.
INTELLIGENCE, PATTERN, AND AN ORDERED WORLD
The sea slug Aplysia has a reflex to withdraw its delicate gills when touched, just in case this contact might signal that some predator is trying to nibble on them. But if subjected to a repeated series of similar touches, it slowly stops that reflex, a mechanism known as habituation, which is ...
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