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["Ben Goertzel" <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> And then we could go from q to real STI values by multiplying each
> entry by the sum of AtomSpace STI.

Right...

> One question, how would atoms below the attentional focus boundary be
> scaled within p? I'm guessing it would just be linear from the min STI
> to the max STI in the system, and then one would record where the
> attention focus boundary lay within that, restoring it afterwards.
> Actually that probably doesn't even need to be explicitly
> considered...

Well, I'm not sure it needs to be explicitly considered...

I mean, STI has reality for system dynamic because it affects rent ...

The approach I'm suggesting now, using a Markov matrix, is basically
a reaction-diffusion process, right?

The basic STI update equation (including a rent term that differs for
Atoms in and out of the AF) is the reaction ... and the Markov-matrix-based
spreading is the diffusion...

At very least, the  Markov matrix approach seems easy to understand...
so it should be easy to fix any problems that arise

-- Ben