Of course I have considered these issues before.
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 8:41 AM, Mike Tintner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim:This is also a problem in animal vision. Each eye is 2-D. (That is > not entirely true, but from a practical point of view it is true.) > As far as flat land or hollywood land, we only live on the earth, so > that means that you can't understand anything about space right? > > Logic running wild, Jim, We animals and humans are not limited by flattish > retinas in learning about the world because we have a body and senses, and > can walk round and explore the objects from multiple POV's & with multiple > faculties, and embody them with our own bodies - put ourselves in their > place. A virtual world AGI *IS* so limited. Have you explored the price of > those unquestionable limitations - which is an important question - and > needs to be answered? Or are you just bent on defending "flatness" and the > lack of a "rounded POV"? > > Bob:This is essentially the same problem as in computer vision. The >> >> objects that you're looking at are three dimensional, but a camera >> image is only a two dimensional shadow of them. The problem then >> becomes one of trying to reverse engineer the 3D shape from a set of >> lower dimensional shadows > > But - correct me - when you engineer the 3D shape, you are merely applying > previous,existing knowledge about other objects to do so - which is a useful > but narrow AI function. You are not actually discovering anything new about > this particular object? > > > > > > ------------------------------------------- > agi > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ > Modify Your Subscription: > https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=111637683-c8fa51 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
