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From: ISSSSM@NUSVM.BITNET (Stephen Smoliar)
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Subject: RE: THE I OF THE BEHOLDER
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In article <1991Jun14.151446.20698@hawk.cs.ukans.edu> spratt@hawk.cs.ukans.edu
(Lindsey Spratt) writes:
>
>Is the "situated automata" mentioned by Smoliar related to Barwise's
>idea of situated inference as presented in "Unburdening the Language
>of Thought" (in "The Situation in Logic" by Jon Barwise, CSLI, 1988)?
>
The attribute "situated" is coming to mean a variety of things, some one which
are related, in artificial intelligence these days.  Barwise seems to be more
committed to formal logic than to the sorts of issues of behavior which have
been occupying my own thoughts.  A good picture of the current lay of the land
can be found in Brian Smith's article, "The owl and the electric encyclopedia,"
which was published in the January 1991 issue of ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.

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