--- Ben Goertzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I think that our propensity for music is pretty damn simple: it's a
> > side-effect of the general skill-learning machinery that makes us memetic
> > substrates. Tunes are trajectories in n-space as are the series of motor
> > signals involved in wa
Yes, Mithen's theory has more complexity than I described. I was not
trying to fully summarize his theory; perhaps I will later, but I
don't have time at the moment...
Just as the blind may use the spatial-conceptualization abilities of
the visual cortex to aid in their thinking -- even if they
Yes, indeed, the facility with which we can learn languages expressed by hand
motions (and the fact that control of language and fine motor control for the
hands is intimately bound up in the brain) is one of the reasons that I think
that language and imitating manual skills are strongly related
On 02/12/06, Ben Goertzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think that our propensity for music is pretty damn simple: it's a
> side-effect of the general skill-learning machinery that makes us memetic
> substrates. Tunes are trajectories in n-space as are the series of motor
> signals involved in w
I think that our propensity for music is pretty damn simple: it's a
side-effect of the general skill-learning machinery that makes us memetic
substrates. Tunes are trajectories in n-space as are the series of motor
signals involved in walking, throwing, hitting, cracking nuts, chipping
stones, etc
On Saturday 02 December 2006 10:18, Ben Goertzel wrote:
> There is not much directly useful for AGI in either Mithen's book or
> my blog entry, but, there is evidence discussed that humanlike
> language acquisition may be closely tied to human embodiment (due to
> its being bound up with tonal-pat
