If you take a person who has functional eyes, ears etc. In other words a rich stream of worldly data and put that person in a vegetative state, do the worldly inputs make the person any smarter?
If an earth worm has a rich input stream from the real world, does that mean that a program that can generate many useful and insightful answers to questions in a game simulator has no hope of catching up to the worm? Doesn't it matter what is done with the input stream as well as how rich it might be? Does a robot that roams around with a whisker sensor gathering input from the world have any chance of greatest if the data is just dumped on entry? Even in this excerpt from Ben below, doesn't the quality of the two intelligences account for most of the differences in their intelligence rather than the richness of the environment? David Clark ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Goertzel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 11:01 AM Subject: Re: [agi] Is a robot a Turing Machine? > I think there is a qualitative difference between > > * an intelligence that has access to a rich stream of percepts and a > flexible palette of actions that interact with the stream of percepts > > * intelligences with a much more impoverished perception/action environment > > This is not a computation-theoretic distinction, though, it's a > cognitive and developmental distinction. A rich environment can > catalyze the formation of internal cognitive structures and dynamics > that may be extremely unlikely to form in a system with an > impoverished environment. > > -- Ben > > ----- > This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email > To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: > http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
