Interpreted Inhibition Net Agents

Abstract

We have advertized inhibition nets as kinds of formal imitations of biological “brainware”, though on a very high level of abstraction. But brains are parts of cognitive agents. In this section we are looking for an analogous assessment of inhibition nets as being parts of cognitive architectures, s.t., their states and processes are interpreted as cognitive states and cognitive processes. In section 15.1 we will assume the central system of our agent A to be an inhibition net; in section 15.2, we will strenghten this assumption when we assume that A is an interpreted network agent in order to ascribe occurrent perceptual and central state beliefs to A; finally, we will ascribe general dispositional beliefs as well as nonmonotonic inferences to the network agent A in section 15.3 and 15.4. In each of these sections we are going to presuppose the definitions, assumptions, and results from parts I and II, and the first chapter of the appendix. But chapter 16 can be read and understood also on the sole basis of the definitions and results that are stated in part III, in chapter 14 of part IV, and in this chapter.