Perception
Agents that sense the world and generate knowledge accessible to
processes that reason are said to preceive the world.
Perception is a continuum of behaviors that extend from the simplicity
of a thermostat which simply measures the temperature to the assumption
used by some agents that objects containing all relevant information
about things in the world get inserted into the agent's knowledge.
Subtle issues regarding the stability of behaviors and decision-making
to inaccuracies, inconsistencies
and incompleteness of perceived
information are taken up by many of the authors.
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