On Nov 29, 2007 11:35 PM, Mike Tintner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Presumably, human learning isn't that slow though - if you simply count the > number of attempts made before any given movement is mastered at a basic > level (.e.g crawling/ walking/ grasping/ tennis forehand etc)? My guess > would be that, for all the frustrations involved, we need relatively few > attempts. Maybe in the hundreds or thousands at most?
It seems to take tots a damn lot of trials to learn basic skills, and we have plenty of inductive bias in our evolutionary wiring... > But then it seems increasingly clear that we use maps/ graphics/ schemas to > guide our movements - have you read the latest Blakeslee book on body maps? So does Novamente, it uses an internal simulation-world (among other mechanism)... but that doesn't magically make learning rapid, though it makes it more tractable... ben ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=70644788-023e28