On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Valentina Poletti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I agree with Pei in that a robot's experience is not necessarily more real > than that of a, say, web-embedded agent - if anything it is closer to the > human experience of the world. But who knows how limited our own sensory > experience is anyhow. Perhaps a better intelligence would comprehend the > world better through a different emboyment.
Exactly, the "world" to a system is always limited by the system's I/O channels, and for systems with different I/O channels, their "worlds" are different in many aspects, but no one is more "real" than the others. > However, could you guys be more specific regarding the statistical > differences of different types of data? What kind of differences are you > talking about specifically (mathematically)? And what about the differences > at the various levels of the dual-hierarchy? Has any of your work or > research suggested this hypothesis, if so which? It is Ben who suggested the statistical differences and the dual-hierarchy, while I'm still not convinced about their value. My own constructive work on this topic can be found in http://nars.wang.googlepages.com/wang.semantics.pdf Pei ------------------------------------------- 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
