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2 Reformulating Perception The SMART framework can be applied to reformulate tropistic agents by first defining types: equating the set S to the SMART type, Environment; the set T (as it refers to agent perceptions), to the type View; and the set, A, to the type Action. The following type definitions can then be written. S == Environment /\ T == View /\ A == Action According to SMART, tropistic agents are not autonomous. Thus the agent-level of conceptualisation is the most suitable level, and these are the models chosen.

In the case of a cup, for example, the set of possible percepts will be empty and consequently the set of actual percepts will also be empty. The robot, however, may have several sensors that allow it to perceive. Thus it is not a requirement of an agent that it is able to perceive. To distinguish between representations of mental models and representations of the actual environment, a type, View, is defined to be the perception of an environment by an agent. This has an equivalent type to that of Environment, but now physical and mental components of the same type can be distinguished.

For the moment, we concentrate on the nature of the disposition that characterises an agent. An object is an agent if it serves a useful purpose either to a different agent, or to itself, in which latter case the agent is autonomous. Specifically, an agent is something that satisfies a goal or set of goals (often of another). Thus if! want to use some object for my purpose, then that object becomes my agent. It has been ascribed or, if we anthropomorphise, has adopted, my goal. An agent is thus defined in relation to its goals.

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