From: kai_schories@freenet.de   
      
   >> One might start from Werbos' definition of intelligence:   
   >> "a system to handle all of the calculations from crude   
   >> inputs through to overt actions in an adaptive way so   
   >> as to maximize some measure of performance over   
   >> time" (IEEE Trans. Systems, Man, and Cvbernetics,   
      
   > Though perhaps better than average as these kind of definitions   
   > go, it is not clear how this definition contributes anything   
   > concrete for this purpose.   
      
   > [ ... ]   
      
   > That extra detail on task representation really helps clarify things.   
      
   I agree to David, in that sense, that development of intelligent   
   agents could only realized within a certain domain, i.e.   
   a well known evironment with a defined set of goals and tasks. But   
   then again, there are still existing various formalisms and methods to   
   formally describe such agents in a highlevel language (like prolog or   
   lisp) and/or on behalf of models like CTL or specification algebras.   
      
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