It’s probably essential for AGI because a) you have to be able to substitute senses when one breaks down – to grope in the dark (touch) as well as the light (vision), to use your hearing instead of your sight to locate objects...
b) to use joint senses to represent objects – for example, to have a kinaesthetic sense as well as a visual sense of an object – not just of its form, but of how that form relates to your own form, and where your body is in relation to it c) to have a universal framework for translating and correlating one sense with another The unisensory approaches currently being pursued – e.g. visual object recognition - are almost certainly doomed and absurd in terms of AGI. From: Arets Paeglis Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2012 10:08 AM To: AGI Subject: Re: [agi] Synaesthesia (or "common sense") - essential for AGI? Why is synaesthesia made implied being equal to common sense and how does it have to do anything with what's essential for AGI? /NJ/ On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Mike Tintner <[email protected]> wrote: Touch the Sound: A Sound Journey with Evelyn Glennie (2004) While still a student, Evelyn Glennie learned that she was going deaf. Rather than abandon her study of music, in which she had shown such talent, she instead turned her focus toward percussion instruments and developed her ability to feel the sound through her body. This documentary follows her as she performs in New York, Germany and Tokyo, sharing her insights into the nature of music and the ways in which we experience it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaesthesia ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/20912103-eed2d0e1 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com AGI | Archives | Modify Your Subscription ------------------------------------------- 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
