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Paul Turpin's avatar

"But now people think [catching a ball] it’s more simple heuristics, such as “keep your eye on the ball and keep the same angle between you and the ball as you move,” which we develop through our interaction with the world. That’s embodied cognition."

Embodied cognition sounds very much like Hubert Dreyfus's "absorbed coping"; do you use Dreyfus at all in your work, Benjamin?

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Very interesting reading. For some reason, it has occurred to me that I have never seen or read any contemporaneous critiques that the objectors to the idea of Alchemy might have said back in the day. Somehow, reading this makes me wonder if there are any existing criticisms, and just what parallels might exist between them and the critiques of the current attempt and efforts toward AGI.

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