Ben/Joshua:
How do you think the AI and AGI fields relate to the embodied & grounded
cognition movements in cog. sci? My impression is that the majority of
people here (excluding you) still have only limited awareness of them - &
are still operating in total & totally doomed defiance of their findings:
"Grounded cognition rejects traditional views that cognition is computation
on amodal symbols in a modular system, independent of
the brain's modal systems for perception, action, and introspection.
Instead, grounded cognition proposes that modal simulations,
bodily states, and situated action underlie cognition." Barsalou
Grounded cognition here obviously means not just pointing at things, but
that all traditional rational operations are, and have to be, supported by
image-inative simulation in any form of general intelligence.
Joshua Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
To return to the old question of why AGI research seems so rare,
Samsonovich
et al. say
(http://members.cox.net/alexei.v.samsonovich/samsonovich_workshop.pdf)
'In fact, there are several scientific communities pursuing the same or
similar goals, each unified under their own unique slogan: "machine /
artificial consciousness", "human-level intelligence", "embodied
cognition",
"situation awareness", "artificial general intelligence", "commonsense
reasoning", "qualitative reasoning", "strong AI", "biologically inspired
cognitive architectures" (BICA), "computational consciousness",
"bootstrapped learning", etc. Many of these communities do not recognize
each other.'
I believe these various academic subcommunities ARE quite aware of each
other
And I would divide them into two categories
1)
Those that are concerned with rather specialized approaches to
intelligence, e.g. qualitative reasoning, commonsense reasoning etc.
2)
Those that do not really constitute a coherent research community,
e.g. BICA, human-level AI ... but rather "merely" constitute a few
assorted workshops, journal special issues, etc.
-- Ben
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