Minsky provides a long list of tricks that we could use to force ourselves to work when we are tired: willpower, activity, expression, chemistry, emotion, attachment. "So many schemes for self-control! How do we choose which ones to use? There isn't any easy way. Self-discipline takes years to learn; it grows inside us stage by stage."
(NB: What exactly, though, is growing? Is it the changing of control structure relationships among existing agents? Is building a new agency equivalent to this? Or is it the building of new agents? OR ARE ALL OF THESE THE SAME!--might we come with a universal set of agents, and differences among us evolve as we arrange them into our own individual agencies?)
Pearl Street | Society of Mind Home Page | Dawson Home Page |