> You reckon Newton thought about apples (etc) falling to earth, and moons > "falling" round planets, by thinking about their names/words? And proceeding > via logico-verbal inference.,? >
I don't know about Newton, but Hadamard wrote a great book based on his survey of how various mathematicans thought in the early part of the last century http://archive.org/details/eassayonthepsych006281mbp // free online version http://www.amazon.com/The-Psychology-Invention-Mathematical-Field/dp/0486201074 As his empirical survey makes clear, some of these folks think verbally, some visually, some auditorially, some more abstractly.... There is no universal rule to the way people experience their thoughts, it seems... You seem to be taking your own personal experience of thinking and incorrectly extending it to everybody... However, your point that *sensory* (not necessarily) visual representations are critical to human-like intelligence, is an important one But please note that the most fashionable approach to AGI these days is deep learning, which incorporates precisely this same idea. So the idea that sensory representations are critical is not novel at all -- it's pretty much the new common sense in the AGI field... Deep Mind and Vicarious Systems, for instance, are two of the better funded AGI projects around, and both are vision-centric and deep learning centric... -- Ben G ------------------------------------------- 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
