A.s.a.'s pains

 I have explored various attention mechanisms. Pain is another of these. A.s.a.'s hunger (low battery voltage) can trigger a search for a recharging station. High temperature measured on a gripper can trigger withdrawal of the manipulator. High transverse accelerations while moving along rough terrain can cause a robot to slow down...... 

Transfer learning

With computer vision it is conventional to pretrain lower levels in the network to represent features like edges and colors. These are then available for later application when learning new images. A.s.a. H. was designed to have a generalized version of such transfer learning.*

* See, for example, my papers Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci. vol. 109, pg 159, 2006 and vol. 120, pg 108, 2017 and my blog of 5 Nov. 2015.

Pluralism again

A. C. Grayling has said that truth is an idealization, something to be approximated toward as a limit. I make use of multiple theories of truth, e.g.:

1. correspondence   2. coherence   3. consensus 

1. I use observation and experiment. 2. I see how it fits with my prior models of things. 3. And I see what models other workers use.