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 What this tells us is this: A model of self can help in solving problems, even unforeseen ones. When an agent makes plans for itself it must include itself in those plans, and there knowledge of self becomes very valuable. For a spacecraft that will never change shape or acquire new hardware functionalities, it is reasonable to assume that a hand-coded model of the body be provided once and for all, at design time. For systems whose physical attributes change, like animals, or whose mental capacities may grow and change radically over time, like human babies', a model provided at design time cannot be a final model. Therefore, self-modeling capabilities for AGIs must be acquired alongside any other cognitive capabilities, skills, and knowledge.
+We can learn some other things from this project. The system was written in Lisp. Why? you may ask. Lisp is a fairly high-level language with flexible syntax. Common Lisp has a powerful object oriented library, and is virtually object-oriented from top to bottom (unlike e.g. Java, which mixes object-orientation with primitives). Pure object-orientation means that ...
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