- I believe that experience is definitely going to be a key issue in learning, and from what I have seen unfortunatly, that experience will need to include motor-sensory experience in the form of a robot body.
We can only explain things, and tell things so much to a computer. But once it gets down to learning and using and applying knowledge it must actually be able to access the real world and learn and grow knowledge interactively.
A simple example of this is a door and doorknob. You can explain what a door is to a robot, and its looks and its function, but until it actually turns the knob, and has the "experience" of working with a door physically, it is just a bunch of words, and a much different thing.
James RatcliffPhilosophers have grappled with the question of the source of knowledge for as long as there have been philosophers, and one of the best accepted answers in modern philosophy is sensory experience. Sensory experience, including proprioception and awareness of motor outputs, in addition to the ordinary five senses, is the material that knowledge is built out of. The brain constructs its logical formulations out of the basic building blocks of the sights, sounds, and feels of linguistic symbols. The symbols themselves (letters of an alphabet, words in a language, etc.) are built up out of lower-level sensory patterns.
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