TY - GEN
T1 - Modelling an Agent's Mind and Matter
AU - Jonker, C.M.
AU - Treur, J.
PY - 1997
Y1 - 1997
N2 - In agent models often it is assumed that the agent maintains internal representations of the material world (e.g., its beliefs). An overall model of the agent and the material world necessarily incorporates sub-models for physical simulation and symbolic simulation, and a formalisation of the (static and dynamic) representation relation between the two types of sub-models. If it is also taken into account that the agent's mind has a materialisation in the form of a brain, the relations between mind and matter become more complex. The question of how the different types of interaction between mind and matter of an agent and the material world can be modelled in a semantically sound manner is the main topic of this paper. The model can be used to simulate a variety of phenomena in which (multiple) mind-matter interactions occur, such as sensing, acting, (planned) birth and death, causing brain damage, and psychosomatic diseases.
AB - In agent models often it is assumed that the agent maintains internal representations of the material world (e.g., its beliefs). An overall model of the agent and the material world necessarily incorporates sub-models for physical simulation and symbolic simulation, and a formalisation of the (static and dynamic) representation relation between the two types of sub-models. If it is also taken into account that the agent's mind has a materialisation in the form of a brain, the relations between mind and matter become more complex. The question of how the different types of interaction between mind and matter of an agent and the material world can be modelled in a semantically sound manner is the main topic of this paper. The model can be used to simulate a variety of phenomena in which (multiple) mind-matter interactions occur, such as sensing, acting, (planned) birth and death, causing brain damage, and psychosomatic diseases.
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U2 - 10.1007/3-540-63077-5_35
DO - 10.1007/3-540-63077-5_35
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 3-540-63077-5
SN - 9783540630777
VL - 1237
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 210
EP - 233
BT - Multi-Agent Rationality, Proceedings of the 8th European Workshop on Modelling Autonomous Agents in a Multi- Agent World, MAAMAW'97
A2 - Boman, M.
PB - Springer/Verlag
T2 - 8th European Workshop on Modelling Autonomous Agents in a Multi-Agent World, MAAMAW 1997
Y2 - 13 May 1997 through 16 May 1997
ER -