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Formalism for introspective free will

 

The previous section concerned only external free will, and it isn't convenient to represent knowledge by the states of subautomata of a reasoning automaton. [McCarthy 1979] has a more extensive formalization of knowing what and knowing that.

The situation calculus, [McCarthy and Hayes 1969] and [Shanahan 1997], offers a better formalism for a robot to represent facts about its own possibilities.





John McCarthy
Sun Nov 21 23:39:43 PST 1999