[B-brains] Minsky's paranomes

[Hesam Samimi]

Hi Alan,

Reading this excerpt from a review on Minsky's society of mind, it  
occurred to me this may be a desired model in our steps project:

"Paranomes. Perhaps the most common method of communication in the So-
ciety of Mind is actually for there to be no active communication at  
all. Instead,
agents often find that the information they need is already available  
when they
need it. This is the result of the use of paranomes. As described  
earlier, when one
pronome of a paranome produces a particular state in terms of one  
representation,
the other pronomes simultaneously update their representations so  
that they enter
corresponding states. Here, communication happens not by sending  
explicit mes-
sages, but rather at all times different agencies are separately  
looking at the same
property, object, event, situation, or other type of thing from their  
own unique per-
spective, and any changes to one representation are immediately  
reflected in the
other corresponding representations. "

This is perhaps what you've talked about as 'publish/subscribe' systems.

This review is found at:
http://web.media.mit.edu/~push/ExaminingSOM.pdf


Best,
Hesam

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