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                                CMU
                       PHILOSOPHY COLLOQUIUM

                             JON DOYLE

            RATIONAL CONSERVATISM AND THE WILL TO BELIEVE
 

   DATE:  MONDAY SEPTEMBER 15

   TIME:  4:OO P.M.

  PLACE:  PORTER HALL, RM 223d


*   Much of the reasoning automated in artificial intelligence is either
mindless deductive inference or is intentionally non-deductive. The common
explanations of these techniques, when given, are not very satisfactory, for
the real explanations involve the notion of bounded rationality, while over 
time the notion of rationality has been largely dropped from the vocabulary of
artificial intelligence. We present the notion of rational self-government, in
which the agent rationally guides its own limited reasoning to whatever degree
is possible, via the examples of rational conservatism and rationally adopted
assumptions.  These ideas offer improvements on the practice of mindless 
deductive inference and explantions of some of the usual non-deductive 
inferences.
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