A Human Baby Learns
- Posted by "C. K. Lester" <cklester at yahoo.com> Nov 07, 2002
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> AI does not require the ability to dynamically program itself. That's > what the neural net is for. Yeah. If you think about it, all we really are is a brain. The body is like a vehicle, getting us around to where we want to go, able to process fuel to keep us alive, etc. > You cannot reprogam how you see/taste/touch/hear/smell. These are our > basic sensory tools, that we use to get input from our environment. What makes a human being able to achieve sentience, whereas other creatures (including dogs, cats) are not? Or do they? (I use "sentience" to mean not only perception and feeling, but self-perception.) What does a human being at birth understand? think? perceive? What is it about our hardware that lets us grow up to be smarter than dolphins? > Think of instinct as our basic set of tools/actions/reactions that we > have at our disposal. Yes, and we have to have autonomic functions as well. Think about a human baby. Left on its own, it will perish. Nurtured, it can eventually become a Nobel-prize winning physicist. That same human baby has no control over its arms (initially)... so how does it learn to control those arms, hands, and fingers, enough to play a composition by Rachmaninov?!