But if the robot is controlled by a computer program, that program is still embodying some logico-mathematical formula, at any particular point in time...
-- Ben G On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 8:01 PM, Mike Tintner <[email protected]>wrote: > P.S. What I should have spelled out is that the moment you connect an > icon to a body - > > for example, an icon of a hand to a physical hand > > **the icon automatically becomes a fluid schema** > > because a hand – like the body - is in effect a fluid schema itself. > What can an agent do with a hand? Nobody can state a definite bounded set > or frame of hand movements. A hand is capable of virtually infinite hand > movements.A fluid range of movements with many yet to be discovered and > many continually being invented. So a hand icon [when connected to a > body/hand] ipso facto refers to a potentially infinite range of hand > movements/shapes etc. > > No one shall enter into the kingdom of AGI who is not a roboticist. > *AGI* | Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/212726-deec6279> | > Modify<https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;>Your Subscription > <http://www.listbox.com> > -- Ben Goertzel, PhD http://goertzel.org "My humanity is a constant self-overcoming" -- Friedrich Nietzsche ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
