Novelty and relevance as criteria for evaluating ideas
Below are some potential heuristics for determining how much attention, thought and memory to allocate to to an idea, especially in the context of agents:
- Relevance of the idea to the ones existing ideas
- Relevance to existing ideas implies:
- better understanding of the idea due to context for it provided by other relevant ideas
- utility of the idea for improving understanding other ideas, due to its relevance to them
- related: learning as adding new functions to a concept network.
- Relevance to existing ideas implies:
- Relevance of the idea to achieving ones goals
- Novelty of the idea
- relates to the extent to which the idea does not overlap with existing ideas and hence is likely to provide new knowledge
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