Richard Sutton

We're not arguing.

We're trying to share our different ways of thinking with each other.

No, I think about it the same way.

But still, it's a small thing on top of basic trial and error learning, prediction learning.

And that's what distinguishes us, perhaps, from many animals.

But we're an animal first.

And we were an animal before we had language and all those other things.

Morphics.

Let's lay out a little bit about what it is.

It says that experience, action, sensation, well, sensation, action, reward, and then this happens on and on and on, makes more life.

It says that this is the foundation and the focus of intelligence.

Intelligence is about taking that stream and altering the actions to increase the rewards in the stream.

Right.

So learning then is from the stream.

and learning is about the stream.

So that second part is particularly telling.

What you learn, your knowledge, your knowledge is about the stream.

Your knowledge is about if you do some action, what will happen?

Or it's about which events will follow other events.

It's about the stream.