Vladimir Nesov:> I think sterile texture of "artificial" environments hides the> richness of their structure from our intuition, since we already have> it imprinted by experience with the real world. Anything less than> capable of dealing with the real world won't understand "cleaned up"> environments also. +1. John Rose: > Which actual world, a natural or manmade? Both, at least up to the present day. In my opinion (though I know from your previous post that you don't agree), I don't see a huge difference in the environmental complexity of the land on which New York City sits now vs 1000 years ago. I did not grow up, nor do I live, in a mostly featureless box. I do agree with your more general point that SOME of the brain's functionality does not have to be duplicated in silicon to achieve AGI. Whether it is a significant fraction, and whether it would need to be replaced with some other functionality, seems like a hard question to me.
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