Right. My intuition is that we don't need to simulate the dynamics of fluids, powders and the like in our virtual world to make it adequate for teaching AGIs humanlike, human-level AGI. But this could be wrong.
It also could be interesting to program an "artificial chemistry" that emulated certain aspects of real chemistry -- not to be realistic, but to have enough complexity to be vaguely analogous. After all, I mean: preschoolers have fun and learn a lot mixing flour and butter and eggs and so forth, but how realistic does the physics of such things really have to be to give a generally comparable learning experience??? ben > > Evolution has equipped humans (and other animals) have a good > intuitive understanding of many of the physical realities of our > world. The real world is not just slippery in the physical sense, it's > slippery in the non-literal sense too. For example, I can pick up an > OXO cube (a solid object), crush it so it become powder, pour it into > my stew, and stir it in so it dissolves. My mind can easily and > effortlessly track that in some sense its the same oxo cube and in > another sense it isn't. > > Another example: my cat can distinguish between surfaces that are safe > to sit on, and others that are too wobbly, even if they look the same. > > An animals intuitive physics is a complex system. I expect that in > humans a lot of this machinery isd re-used to create intelligence. (It > may be true, and IMO probably is true, that it's not necessary to > re-create this machinery to make an AGI). > > > -- > Philip Hunt, <[email protected]> > Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. > See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > > > ------------------------------------------- > 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 > -- Ben Goertzel, PhD CEO, Novamente LLC and Biomind LLC Director of Research, SIAI [email protected] "I intend to live forever, or die trying." -- Groucho Marx ------------------------------------------- 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
