Mike,
I'm going to have to bow out of this conversation; there is just too large a
distance between how we think about these things, and I don't get anything from
it. I don't necessarily disagree with your basic judgment about which parts of
cognitive science are the most fruitful, but you interpret them and apply them
in such strange and useless ways... When you write:
> What do you think image schemas, on which cognitive
> embodied science is founded, are made of ... but lines?
I just don't even know where to begin, except to say that image schemas are
only "made of lines" in the most superficial way; it's like saying language is
made of lines because that is how we write it down.
I was happier with the idea of maps because maps are abstract correspondences
(of an interesting type) between an internal representation and the domain
being mapped; that correspondence is the important thing. "Line", especially
the way you use the word, is not nearly as useful a concept. "Path" or "Link"
would be better than "Line" as parts of a framework for thinking about thinking.
Just one last thing, which I really hope you manage to get someday:
> The key difficulty here is that you seem to be still thinking of *computer
> programs* - rather than robots.
A robot is still controlled by a computer program. You don't get away from the
difficult issues of AGI by giving a computer a body. I believe it is a good
idea because of the richness of the connection between program and world that
is provided by the sensory and and motor capacities of such embodiment, but it
still runs a program which is what interprets the sensory data and tells the
motors what to do (provided that it is not some radically new design -- which
would be fine, but needs to explained).
The task of AGI is to write a computer program (or build a device out of some
other tangible specifiable concrete "stuff"). Yes, it is a challenge to get
programs to do what is needed, but that is exactly the challenge that defines
AGI as an area of study.
Derek Zahn
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AGI
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