A Wholistic Cognitive System (Seer-2) for Integrated Perception, Action and Thought
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1974Author
Uhr, Leonard
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Computer Sciences
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This paper describes a computer-programmed model, SEER-2, that can perform a
variety of different types of actions that span the human intellectual processes,
including naming objects, describing scenes, answering simple questions,
deducing solutions to simple problems, pointing to objects, and manipulating
objects. Recognition, description, memory search, and deduction are all handled
in the same semantic cognitive network, using the same basic type of general
transformation. Thus they are all intermingled, and can conveniently interact
and call upon one another, as needed.
SEER-2's acts, both external and internal, are a function of a variety of
influences, including the presses of internal needs and of external objects,
as well as verbal commands (that is, the understood import of verbal utterances).
SEER-2 is thus a first step toward an integrated wholistic cognitive system, one
that is as simple and general as possible yet begins to handle a representative
variety of cognitive processes.
The SEER system uses a set of transforms that compose its memory network, and
contain the specific information needed to handle the types of problems it will
encounter - much as a parser must be given a set of rewrite rules that contain
the needed information about the vocabulary and grammar of the languages to be
parsed. In future systems we will attempt to have these memory transforms
learned through experience. But for now they must be given the system. Examples
of SEER-2's behavior when given a small memory are presented.
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