A DEVELOPMENTAL APPROACH TO PURPOSEFUL SYSTEMS AND INTELLIGENCE

Abstract

In order to survive, the actions of a purposeful system must be governed in such a way that its more prepotent needs are satisfied. A purposeful system's actions are largely governed by its representation of its world, and hence if it has an inappropriate representation it will not survive. Our premise is that intelligence is a property only reasonably attributable to purposeful systems which compute a representation of their world. Using this premise, we consider cognition to be the continual process of computing/recomputing representations and argue that it implies forms of computation, described in this paper, which make distinctions.

Citation

RICHARDS, D.J. (1977), "A DEVELOPMENTAL APPROACH TO PURPOSEFUL SYSTEMS AND INTELLIGENCE", Kybernetes, Vol. 6 No. 1, pp. 9-14. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb005435