Magical thinking

Asa’s thoughts really can bring about (some) effects in the world. After deliberation Asa can command a servo to move, grasp, lift, etc. As an action sequence (a case in Asa’s case base) is learned coincidental co ocurrences should average out (decay away to low values and be ignored). But if and when they do not Asa can be guilty of magical thinking.  Asa currently believes that orange plastic sources are gamma ray sources since the only gamma sources Asa has seen have been orange. Asa does not presently have any deep theory of radioactivity that might make it question this corelation. Neither has Asa seen a wide selection of gamma sources. Human’s suffer from similar magical thinking.