Humean Machine: When Desires Are in Charge
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| Year of publication | 2012 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Beyond AI: Artificial Dreams - Proceedings of the International Conference Beyond AI 2012 |
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| Field | Philosophy and religion |
| Keywords | desires; dummy-desires; motivational attitudes; formal models of desire; humean machine |
| Description | It is already broadly agreed upon, although not yet deeply studied, that motivational relations such as desires and goals should play important role in devising artificial agents. In this paper we propose different approach to modeling desire: instead of embedding desire into the reasoning mechanism, we insert reason into the desiring mechanism. In addition new distinction between desires and dummy-desires is introduced. |