Abram:In what practical situations does it help to have an analog computer?)
All physical real world activities - all forms of **configuring** a body to the objects of the world - handling objects, putting feet on terrains, positioning bodies, embracing objects, lying on objects. All forms of understanding other bodies' **configurations** - mirroring objects, animals and humans. All physical real world perception - understanding and comparing the irregular configurations of real world objects. All mental real world reasoning - all forms of thinking about real world objects - science, technology, arts, history, business. etc - and understanding the irregular configurations of real objects' activities. All forms of artificial world reasoning - geometry, maths, logic - all symbols are figures and have first to be understood as figures/analogs/maps - all abstract figures are ditto figures etc Basically all reasoning period. That's why current computer programs can't reason about, and have no connection with the real world, period. They're just electronic pulse pushers - they can't fit the pulses/symbols to the real world - have no sense of "the shape of things" present or to come.. Apart from all this, it's true,, analog computers wouldn't be that useful. ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-c97d2393 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-2484a968 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
