Mike Tintner writes:
And.. by now you should get the idea.
And the all-important thing here is that if you want to TEST or question the above sentence, the only way to do it successfully is to go back and look at the reality. If you wanted to argue, "well look at China, they're rocketing with unbridled capitalism but v. little democracy, so maybe the two don't go together"... the only way to carry that argument through is to go and LOOK at China.
I guess I just don't quite follow what you are saying (though I do wish you wouldn't be so insulting while saying it). I guess what you are saying is: Human beings learn most of what they know from experience. Most experience comes through senses such as sight. Therefore systems that do not work in the same way cannot have knowledge like human beings do, which means they cannot be intelligent in any meaningful sense. I have never seen China. I don't believe the television images I have seen of China (the great wall, Tienenmen square, the occasional smiling politician) have told me much about china. I have, however, read and heard a great deal of language about China. I'm not disagreeing that starting with real sensory data is probably the best approach to building AGI, but I don't see a strong argument that every other approach is wrong. ----- 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/?member_id=231415&user_secret=fabd7936
