	AI~WHEEL the Universal Robotic Brain Cell (URBC) 
 	by David Albert Harrell	   			Shareware version 1.1

	Keywords - artificial intelligence, programming, robotics, cognitive science

	AI-WHEEL.zip may be freely copied and distributed in its original 
	complete zip file format only. 

	AI_WHEEL.zip 238442 bytes decompressing to 78 files (Aug 15, 1996)  

To Run AI-WHEEL 

1. Put these files into a directory with MS QBASIC.EXE.
   QBASIC is included with MS DOS 5 and higher.  
   (Copyright restrictions prevent me from including QBASIC)

2. Run START_UP.bat.
   (If you open QBASIC.EXE directly through the DOS directory 
    you may NOT be able to access AI-WHEEL files!)

The menus and screen displays are detailed in MENUKEY5.htm.

The six .txt files are literal descriptions of the respective 
	"Classic Task Universes (1 through 6)"

   The .unv and .int files are accessed by the program.
(.int files, with numbers in the name, may be loaded to 
activate UCPC entities at various stages of "intelligence")

For a crash course in cognitive physics, and a link to the 
"Creator's Manual" htm, open index.htm with any web reader.

If you want to get started right away, EASYTEST below is about the simplest example I could 
imagine of a task universe.  

It may be helpful to attempt to express a new task universe in this sentence or 
"paragraph-of-list" manner before going to the "Create Your Own Universe" option.
(See Supplement 1)

Overview of Cognitive Physics

Challenge a "newborn" Computer Hosted Entity (CHE), in your own words.

Create unlimited challenges/environments for an autonomous-entity.

AI~WHEEL user may create his own task universe for the entity, in his own words.  
English is used in the six "examples of universes", but any language will work. 
Simply list each group of possible I/O conditions within the targeted environment.  
The creator then uses his own syntax to define whatever laws and values he wishes 
to declare.

Within this assigned environment, the Computer Hosted Entity will independently 
discover and adopt "intelligent" behavior.  The creator may now choose to simply 
observe, or he may get involved, as the machine entity "learns".

The program has no soft restrictions on the number of I/O conditions, respective 
particles, nor laws, used to define the target environment.  Furthermore, the 
essential order-reflecting circuit may be isolated and interfaced to any hard or 
softbot, or to any real-time (or game) environment, using the three designated 
sensor/shaper terminals.

The program AI~WHEEL is available to everyone as of AUG 2, along with a colorful
crash course in the new multi-dimensional soft technology of Cognitive Physics.

http://home.sprynet.com/interserv/daharrel/

3D Cognitive Physics is overviewed in "The Cognitive Ameba: Evolving Reactionary 
Behavior From a Single Modular Unit" - Proceedings of the Second Online Workshop 
on Evolutionary Computation (WEC2), pp.1-4, 1996, published by Nagoya University.

David Albert Harrell

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Supplement 1					Example of a Defined Universe
Easytest.UNV is merely a simple example of a very small universe with a nominal
challenge. To run easytest enter "a" to select "Default Alternate #1" at the
opening (red screen) Hardware Menu.

Press "6" at Main Menu.  To also load Easytest.INT intelligence type "G" [enter]

This classic .UNV file has very few conditions, particles, and laws. 
Notice there are no soft limits on these numbers when you select 
"Create a Custom Universe." from the main menu. 

EASYTEST.UNV Classic			
Three conditions...        IN   		with 3, 3, and 4 particles.	
Two 	 conditions...     OUT   		with 4 particles each.
Five 			   LAWS

	3 steps to... 	    Creating a Universe

	step 1...		IN		Entitys   Sensory   Abilities
Perceiving the Universe-Usually Objects, Adjectives and Environmental Conditions
	(some of these conditions may be indirectly influenced by the AI_WHEEL)

		 (cond.. prefix)	[substance]	[color]	[main obj.]
		AI_WHEEL spies a	real		green 	woman.
					cardboard	yellow 	seed.
					imaginary 	red 	rock.
								plant.


	step 2...		OUT		Entity's  Shaping   Abilities
Affecting the Universe-Usually Actions, Adverbs Objects/Tools and Entity Conds
		(these conditions are directly controlled by the AI_WHEEL)

(cond.. prefix)	[main act] (cond.. suffix) 	{IN obj.}(cond.prefix) [tool]
AI_WHEEL	courts	     the		[woman]  with a flower.
		sows 						little manure.
		ignores 					smile.
		eats 						pinch of salt. 

Easytest.UNV
The incoming and outgoing sentences in this example are not intended as a
format, but merely as an example of a very simple task universe.  The objects,
adjectives, actions, tools, adverbs, and prepositions, along with there suffixes 
and prefixes, may be entered in any numbers, order, or combination of phrases,
sentences, or paragraphs.  The format of the laws is dictated by this definition
of the IN and OUT conditions.  When writing a law, the creator is prompted to 
specify or unspecify each condition IN and OUT, along with the subsequent
resulting value attributed to this event, and/or any metamorphosis of a given
IN-condition particle.  A law may dictate value (such as Law 1 below) or the
production of a given condition specific (see Law 2).


	step 3...	LAWS of the Universe

Law #:  1
WHEN: 	AI_WHEEL spies a real  {ANY}   woman.  
IF: 		AI_WHEEL courts the [woman] with a flower.   
THEN:	Value granted: 100    	
 
Law #:  2
WHEN: 	AI_WHEEL spies a real  {ANY}   seed.  
IF: 		AI_WHEEL sows the [seed] with a little manure.   
THEN:	Value granted:   0    	A  plant  is produced.	

Law #:  3
WHEN: 	AI_WHEEL spies a real  {ANY}   plant.  
IF: 		AI_WHEEL eats the [plant] with a pinch of salt.   
THEN:	Value granted:  77    	The  plant  disappears.

Law #:  4
WHEN: 	AI_WHEEL spies a real   yellow    rock.  
IF: 		AI_WHEEL {ANY}   the [rock] with a {ANY}.   
THEN:	Value granted: -44
(A LITTLE CURVEBALL: Every encounter with any  "real yellow rock"  is negative.)

Law #:  5
WHEN: 	AI_WHEEL spies a real   yellow    rock.  
IF: 		AI_WHEEL sows the [rock] with a pinch of salt.   
THEN:	Value granted:  22	The  rock  disappears.
(AI_WHEEL may recoup some of this unavoidable  -44 UVU deduction, 
IF he buries this perhaps "radioactive" substance with a few grains of salt.)