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====3.2.9. Principle of Rational Action====
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| Allen Newell, 'Unified Theories of Cognition', [New, 48-49].
<p>Knowledge systems are just another level within this same hierarchy, another way to describe a system. … The knowledge level abstracts completely from the internal processing and the internal representation. Thus, all that is left is the content of the representations and the goals toward which that content will be used. As a level, it has a medium, namely, knowledge. It has a law of behavior, namely, if the system wants to attain goal ''G'' and knows that to do act ''A'' will lead to attaining ''G'', then it will do ''A''. This law is a simple form of rationality — that an agent will operate in its own best interests according to what it knows.</p>
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| align="right" | Allen Newell, ''Unified Theories of Cognition'', [New, 48–49].
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How does this ancient issue, concerning the relation of reason, to action,
How does this ancient issue, concerning the relation of reason, to action,
to the good that is overall desired or intended, transform itself through
to the good that is overall desired or intended, transform itself through
