| Frederick Toates. Motivational Systems. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1986. |
....first order and second order. First order resources are directly consumable ones that an agent already has at disposal (e.g. available food or water for animals, processing time or memory for computer) Needs such as hunger, thirst, fatigue, shelter, sex. are the motivational processes [Toates 86] that insure management and regulation of first order resources. Second order resources are those that you get only indirectly, through having other agents committed to give them to you: newborns could get access to food only through having their parents provide the feeding resources for ....
Frederick Toates. Motivational Systems. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1986.
....previously processed by A, and . It should be able to continue doing its previous work despite undertaking also A s role. The answer to the first two requirements is that the cells should include more than one internal drives (term borrowed from the animal behavior literature, see for example [10]) which are independent autonomous components corresponding to those various cell roles. Each of these drives is endowed with an identification template which is compared against the templates of available messages. Messages therefore have two parts: an identification template part and an ....
F. Toates : Motivational systems, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1986.
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