That's a good idea! It reminds me of a queue list w/ the STL and C#. Check what needs to be done first, then store it onto the queue. Thanks again.

dxFoo, what you are looking for is "planning".

Motives (or needs, your 'meters') sparks goals. We then make a plan (or strategy, a set of actions) to achieve those goals, using our knowledge. The ability to plan ahead is the "trademark" of human intelligence.

Planners are a wide and popular part of AI. Unfortunatly, right now the best of them are painfully slow. I think the problem has been proven to be NP-complete.

If you wanted even more complexity and realism, you could allow priorities to inerrupt each other. If you are eating, and something of much greater priority shows up, it will interrupt your meal. The threshhold for completion of a task should therefore be a portion of the weight of all your other tasks combined. So if you are asleep, and it is a priority not to be late for work, you wake up unless your need to sleep is an oder of magnitude(or so) greater than your need to keep your job.

For complexity which does not necessarily increase intelligence, you have attention span. you go for a finite time, not neccissarily until you are done, and reevaluate(ADHD)

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For complexity which does not necessarily increase intelligence, you have attention span. you go for a finite time, not neccissarily until you are done, and reevaluate(ADHD)

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Today's kids have attention span that can only be mesured in milliseconds!