On 2012/09/12, at 0:19, Mike Tintner <[email protected]> wrote:

> AT:Well, let's just say that one of my working hypotheses is that "seeing" 
> may be too little for AGI.
> 
> Well, the question is - why does an agent need sight anyway?
> We don't understand  (*are* there any theories?) at what point an agent needs 
> sight.

An agent doesn't need sight (until a particular task requires it).
There are many blind people conducting independent lives.

> It may be that a real-world-worthy robot first needs a kinaesthetic sense of 
> its body and surroundings.

If robotics emulates evolution, that would be correct.

-- 
Naoya Arakawa



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