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In agent models often it is assumed that the agent maintains internal representations of the material world (e.g., its beliefs). An overall model of the agent and the material world necessarily incorporates sub-models for physical simulation and symbolic simulation, and a formalisation of the (static and dynamic) representation relation between the two types of sub-models. If it is also taken into account that the agent's mind has a materialisation in the form of a brain, the relations between mind and matter become more complex. The question of how the different types of interaction between mind and matter of an agent and the material world can be modelled in a semantically sound manner is the main topic of this paper. The model can be used to simulate a variety of phenomena in which (multiple) mind-matter interactions occur, such as sensing, acting, (planned) birth and death, causing brain damage, and psychosomatic diseases.
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Jonker, C.M., Treur, J. (1997). Modelling an agent's mind and matter. In: Boman, M., Van de Velde, W. (eds) Multi-Agent Rationality. MAAMAW 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1237. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-63077-5_35
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