Walter J. Freeman (1992) Framing is a Dynamic Process
. Psycoloquy: 3(62) Frame Problem (3)
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Psycoloquy 3(62): Framing is a Dynamic Process
FRAMING IS A DYNAMIC PROCESS
Commentary on Ford & Hayes on Frame Problem
Walter J. Freeman
MCB LSA 129
Division of Neurobiology
University of California
Berkeley CA 94720
wfreeman@garnet.berkeley.edu
Abstract
It appears that Hayes's premises are that the primitive
reasoning of a child suffices for framing and that the superior
reasoning of a highly educated adult should do better. This does
not nesessarily follow, however, since, paraphrasing from Neumann
(1958), brains do logic poorly, and logical devices do framing
poorly. Framing is the natural outcome of the dynamic process by
which meaning is created in the forebrain under the influence of
sensory flow, past experience embedded in synaptic change, and the
immediacy of impending action and expected reward.
Keywords
Frame-problem, artificial intelligence, temporal logics,
independent persistence, attention, Hume, dynamic frames,
qualification problem.
References
- Ford, K.M. and P.J. Hayes (1991) Reasoning Agents in a Dynamic World: The Frame Problem, Greenwich: JAI Press.
- Hayes, P. J. (1992) Summary of Ford & Hayes (1991). PSYCOLOQUY 3(59) frame-problem.1.
- Freeman, W. J. (1991) The Physiology of Perception. Scientific American 264: 78-85.
- Gibson, J.J. (1979) The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception. Boston: Houghton Mifflin
- Von Neumann, J. (1958) The Computer and the Brain. New Haven: Yale University Press.