P.S. To explain further: I said that the brain(-and-body) understands
changes of form by robotic/embodied principles. So how is it that you are
able to understand a body in any new dance shape as a human body? Note that
all kinds of weird new dance moves we've never seen before are continually
being invented.
You understand those shapes by literally simulating them with your body -
asking: could my body take that new shape? Your body does not need to go
all the way to simulate new body movements - it can prefigure them, for it
is all the time prefiguring and checking prospective movements. (In this way
your brain-body system tells you that your injured foot cannot make a
certain normally habitual movement, BEFORE you ever make it). If the human
brain-and-body can do this, robots can and will have to do this, (if only
eventually).
There is a great deal of evidence that this kind of simulation actually
happens.
We understand how other kinds of body, like water or lava, move by also
simulating them with our body, comparing them to how we move.
To the classic AI mind, this sounds at first v. complex and wild, but
actually it's vastly more parsimonious than a blind, fantastically
convoluted geometric approach, which hasn't worked and can't work.
I'm suggesting we have to really "grasp" visual shapes to understand them
and their many transformations.
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AGI
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