Dear Matthew, (01)
Just one more comment: (02)
MW> It sounds to me that Ronald is assuming that things he
> doesn't know about don't exist. (03)
I agree his comment that "the agent must discover its own
reality" is misleading at best and wrong if taken literally. (04)
But I had interpreted his use of the word as a synonym for
the word 'Lebenswelt' or 'Innenwelt". (See the definitions
below by John Deely, following the work by Jakob von Uexk�ll.) (05)
Instead of confusing people by using the word 'reality' in
a metaphorical sense. I recommend the words 'Lebenswelt'
or 'Innenwelt' as useful technical terms. (06)
John
_______________________________________________________________ (07)
From (08)
http://web.archive.org/web/20060221134707/http://www.ut.ee/SOSE/deely.htm (09)
Umwelt (UW) -- "a vehicle for expressing especially the role
of biological heritage in the use and function of signs, rather
than for expressing what is species-specifically human in the
use and function of signs." (Deely's definition) (010)
Lebenswelt (LW) -- "I have proposed that the term Lebenswelt
should be adopted to express an Umwelt which is species-
specifically human, retaining Umwelt to express the generic
idea of an objective world which is in every case species-
pecific consequent upon biological constitution." (Deely) (011)
Innenwelt (IW) -- The inner world of human experience, thought,
mental models, feelings, wishes, hopes, fears, etc. (012)
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