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Purposeful Choice and Point of View

Dominic Widdows Serendipity. Purposeful Choice and Point of View. “Four Causes” Material Formal Efficient Final. “But of these the final cause rather corrupts than advances the sciences, except such as have to do with human action.”. Look Cute, Get Food!. Purposeful Choice Model.

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Purposeful Choice and Point of View

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  1. Dominic Widdows Serendipity Purposeful Choiceand Point of View

  2. “Four Causes” • Material • Formal • Efficient • Final

  3. “But of these the final cause rather corrupts than advances the sciences, except such as have to do with human action.”

  4. Look Cute, Get Food!

  5. Purposeful Choice Model

  6. Points of View

  7. Points of View

  8. How it looks to the dogs

  9. Purposeful choice models are semantic vector models where some of the axes are marked as goals or objective axes.Other axes can be brought into line with these objective axes using a suitable transformation of point-of-view.

  10. Purposeful choice models are semantic vector models where some of the axes are marked as goals or objective axes.Other axes can be brought into line with these objective axes using a suitable transformation of point-of-view.

  11. A List of Useful Things • Supports Learning • Wouldn't be impressive except that classical (Victorian) logic doesn't • Objective axis easily become an objective function • Which is very classical in the sense of optimization. • Soapbox point: classical is way more confused than quantum! • Supports hybrid strategies

  12. Normalization with hybrid strategies

  13. Classification andGeneralized Uncertainty Principle • Add decision boundaries • “Fight or flight” • Add an “Avoid Injury” axis • Decisions lose information! • Projection onto “Avoid Injury” loses information about “Get Food” • (I don't think this is a formal correspondence with Heisenberg uncertainty / matrix commutator.) • “There's only one way to find out!”

  14. Further Directions • Rhetoric • Changing the point of view of others • Politics / Organizational Theory • Choosing several objective axes with a plausible decision boundary • Search Engines (naturally!) • Purpose and motive cause compatibility? • Potentials and fields?

  15. I have stated that these laws depend on human decree because it is well to define and explain things by their proximate causes ... as to the actual coordination and concatenation of things, we are obviously ignorant; therefore, it is more profitable for right living, nay, it is necessary for us to consider things as contingent.

  16. Acknowledgements

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