2008/12/11 Mike Tintner <[email protected]>: > If you try and reduce those maps to any other form, e.g. some mathematical > or program form, you *lose the object.* It's equivalent to taking a jigsaw > puzzle to pieces - all you have are the pieces, and you've lost the picture > - the whole.
The brain isn't really a sausage machine in this sense. Rather, multiple representations are simultaneously maintained, and more advanced concepts are formed from cross modal association/transformation. > You need the whole picture and the whole map to see and recognize the object > - and to compare that object with other objects. (Similarly you need the > whole cake and not just the recipe). It's possible to recognise people or objects from extremely sparse data - moving dots. However, this is only achieved due to prior experience and the sort of cross modal associations which I previously mentioned. > P.S. As a roboticist, you especially should be able to understand that an > agent moving through a world of objects, needs images/maps of those objects > (and not just symbolic formulae) in order to keep minutely and precisely > aligning itself with those objects. Yes, but visual imagery is only one component of the conceptual constellation. You can think of a concept as a high dimensional object - a metastable "coalition of the willing" within the dynamic core - with a proportion of those dimensions being visual/auditory/tactile, etc. ------------------------------------------- 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=123753653-47f84b Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
