Coherence
Coherence refers to an agent's ability to resolve conflicts between
competing or conflicting goals, resulting in behavior that transitions smoothly. Informally,
a coherent agent is one that does not behave schizophrenically in the
presence of environmental inputs that indicate different appropriate
responses. The concept differs from rationality which is associated with high
level cognition in that it is usually associated with reactive agents.
Architectures exhibiting coherent behavior include:
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