PSYC 315 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Np-Completeness, Brittleness, Backward Chaining
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If goal is to drive car forward. What do we know about the world. How can we recruit world and make inferences about them. When rules fire, their actions are recording in working memory. Rules set up conditions so that other rules can fires. Match facts of world to condition sides of rules. Which rules have conditions satisfied that they can fire. Keep going until rules are not satisfied anymore. If a key rule did not fire why?! Different results based on how you order the rules. Regardless of order, some have priority over others. If 2 rules can fire, one with higher priority happens first. Rules with most specific conditions should start first. If news comes in about current recession. If a & b & c then r. News that 2 of largest corporations are going to bankruptcy. Two rules who"s conditions match - which one was used more frequently. Stability: ability to carry out long sequences of actions.