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| A requirement of **transversality** means that the learning must be able to address, or be applied to, virtually anything in the cognitive architecture. Transversal cognitive functions are a system architect's nightmare: They affect anything and everything in the system, and make its design orders of magnitude more difficult. | A requirement of **transversality** means that the learning must be able to address, or be applied to, virtually anything in the cognitive architecture. Transversal cognitive functions are a system architect's nightmare: They affect anything and everything in the system, and make its design orders of magnitude more difficult. |
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| There are several cognitive functions besides learning that are transversal, and still others that have transversal aspects. Among those that clearly fall into the class of transversal functions are attention, temporal grounding, and goal acquisition. By **goal acquisition** is mean a cognitive system's ability to identify the need for creating a new goal, and the ability to create an appropriate goal from a set of circumstances, often times defined by either a lack of a particular goal or the need for a goal to bridge between other goals. Goals should in fact be generatable from a variety of contexts, including from instructions of another cognitive system, e.g. when participating in some activity for the first time. To take an example, a goal of being on average //slightly less tense every day//, may be all that is needed for someone to get rid of sore muscles. Identifying the non-desired state, muscle soreness, inferring potential causes, and generating a plan with a root goal to reduce or remove those causes, is a necessary function of any AGI. The source of the need for the new goal should not matter: Without the //general ability// to perform this feat, a cognitive system is less likely to be an AGI. | There are several cognitive functions besides learning that are transversal, and still others that have transversal aspects. Among those that clearly fall into the class of transversal functions are attention, temporal grounding, and goal acquisition. By **goal acquisition** we mean a cognitive system's ability to identify the need for creating a new goal, and the ability to create an appropriate goal from a set of circumstances, often times defined by either a lack of a particular goal or the need for a goal to bridge between other goals. Goals should in fact be generatable from a variety of contexts, including from instructions of another cognitive system, e.g. when participating in some activity for the first time. To take an example, a goal of being on average //slightly less tense every day//, may be all that is needed for someone to get rid of sore muscles. Identifying the non-desired state, muscle soreness, inferring potential causes, and generating a plan with a root goal to reduce or remove those causes, is a necessary function of any AGI. The source of the need for the new goal should not matter: Without the //general ability// to perform this feat, a cognitive system is less likely to be an AGI. |
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| Attention is of course closely related to an AGI's ability to select the correct tasks to perform, attend to the right details, control sensory apparatuses appropriately in light of present goal(s). By the term "attention" is meant a rather broad set of skills and abilities relating to managing a cognitive system's resources. Like learning, the attention process -- or more appropriately, processes must be applicable not only to information which has its origins outside of the system, but also to processes inside it. Attention is a "helper" function to learning, to a system's ability to perform tasks and achieve goals, yet it is a central function without which any AGI would be unable to focus on the right information sources (and, conversely, filter out unwanted information and noise), stick to the right goals for sufficiently long to achieve them, and yet stay open to interruptions to appropriate levels. | Attention is of course closely related to an AGI's ability to select the correct tasks to perform, attend to the right details, control sensory apparatuses appropriately in light of present goal(s). By the term "attention" is meant a rather broad set of skills and abilities relating to managing a cognitive system's resources. Like learning, the attention process -- or more appropriately, processes must be applicable not only to information which has its origins outside of the system, but also to processes inside it. Attention is a "helper" function to learning, to a system's ability to perform tasks and achieve goals, yet it is a central function without which any AGI would be unable to focus on the right information sources (and, conversely, filter out unwanted information and noise), stick to the right goals for sufficiently long to achieve them, and yet stay open to interruptions to appropriate levels. |
