Defining motivation and cognition in animals
International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 5 (2):153 – 170 (1991)
| Abstract | Abstract Motivation in an automaton, whether it be artificial or animate, is simply that aspect of the total state that determines the behaviour. In an autonomous agent, which has a degree of self?control, the motivational state includes a cognitive evaluation of the likely consequences of possible future behaviour. Such evaluation implies optimization with respect to some motivational criterion | |||||||||
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