Minsky frames as communiation tool

 

A minsky frame is a list of key/value pairs as text overlay in a GUI window. Its not intended as an internal data structure within a robot but its GUI gadget which displays information about the game on the screen.

For the example of an intersection simulator the minsky frame was realized with the pygame command:

screen.blit(txt, (35, y))

Which draws a text string to the screen, for example the information "exit_target: WEST". A minsky frame is some sort of form which determines which aspects of the reality are important. The computer determines the value for each item and shows the result on the screen. This allows to solve the symbol grounding problem because the shown text overlay translates the data layer of the DIKW pyramid into the information of the DIKW pyramid.