This is a long term project that is exploring the modelling of simple minds based on causal processes.
One of the main objectives is the production of a cognitive engine that can be used as a software module in systems requiring intelligent control. Such is the clarity of the mechanism underlying minds proposed by the General Theory for Artificial Minds, that the models bypass the need for modelling signs, dispositions, or neurons. Instead it enables efficient processes to be designed suitable for real-time environments.
For further details on the Plato project see its' project page here.
The Samson project explored the machine modelling of simple minds based on dispositional and semiotic processes. This project has now been superceded by the Plato project for reasons of efficiency.
The project resulted in the development of a dispositional modelling environment as a basis for semiotic cognitive modelling. A dispositional model was represented by an object oriented model, rather than inventing yet another AI language. A dispositional modelling library, implemented in C++, was developed for this purpose.
For further details on the Samson project see its' project page here.
This project has now finished. The result was a C based environment for specifying and simulating models of neural networks.
For further details on the NeSeL project see its' project page here.