I do not doubt that body-thinking exists and is important, my doubt is that it is in any AGI-useful sense "the largest part" of thinking...
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Mike Tintner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ben:What evidence do you have that this [body thinking] is the "largest > > part" ... it does > not feel at all > that way to me, as a subjectively-experiencing human; and I know of no > evidence > in this regard > > Like I said, I'm at the start here - and this is going against thousands of > years of literate culture. And there's a lot of work that needs to be done, > but I'm increasingly confident about it. > > For a quick, impressionistic response to your question, think of what kind > of spectator events are almost guaranteed to produce the greatest > physical-and-emotional, "whole-body" responses in you. Spectator sports - > when you watch, say, someone miss a goal, and literally scream with your > whole body. Or farce - when some comic actor makes some crazy physical > errors - which you find literally gut-wrenchingly funny. Why do you respond > so intensely? Because you are "body thinking", mirroring their actions with > your whole body - and that's a whole lot of stuff to think with, compared > say to the relatively few brain-and-body areas involved in symbolic thinking > like "22 + 22 = 44". (I notice in education they are now talking about how > infants and young children have to acquire all those symbols by "hands-on > thinking", i.e. "body thinking." You (and I) have just forgotten all that > stuff.). > > > > > ------------------------------------------- > agi > Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ > Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > -- Ben Goertzel, PhD CEO, Novamente LLC and Biomind LLC Director of Research, SIAI [EMAIL PROTECTED] "If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms." -- Henry Miller ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=95818715-a78a9b Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
