Thursday, February 01, 2007

Actitrons + Perceptrons = Ying + Yang

I started writing a SciFi novel where in the future there are two types of things: Perceptrons and Actitrons. A perceptron is a unit of perception that somebody perceives (apologies to AI guru, Marvin Minsky for pinching his term) and actitrons are units of action.

My SciFi novel is on the back burner but I think these ideas could be useful in designing the next part of The Goo. When we work we perceive things and then perform actions as a result. A lot of time is spent moving from perceiving to acting and going back again.

Hopefully this diagram will help explain:

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