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Stimulating atoms outside of a mind agent #2

Open misgeatgit opened 9 years ago

misgeatgit commented 9 years ago

Currently atoms can only be stimulated with in an Agent class instance. Is there any particular reason for this design choice? What is the disadvantage of making stimulus attribute of an Atom class and stimulation a method defined by the AtomSpace class?

bgoertzel commented 9 years ago

On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Misgana Bayetta notifications@github.com wrote:

Currently atoms can only be stimulated with in an Agent class instance. Is there any particular reason for this design choice?

There's no good reason for that, we just weren't thinking of a non-Scheduler-based architecture at the time that was done ...

What is the disadvantage of making stimulus attribute of an Atom class and stimulation a method defined by the AtomSpace class?

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