I think this is an important point because it’s gonna be hard to emulate our human intelligence without reckoning with the fact that so much of evolution / natural selection had to do with *being in a physical body*. So much of what we term “intelligence” is how our brains dealt
Completely agree, and this exactly what my book The Birth of the Mind was about: how the toolkit of biology could wire innateness into a growing brain. https://twitter.com/drgarethedwards/status/1004054663476514817 …
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with being embodied over millions of years.
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Gary -- the late great Gerald Edelman had stressed this long ago in his Neural Darwinism, but neuroscientists of yore were skeptical of him then...
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Sure. Why wouldn't it? Our evolution-tuned DNA installs every other tool and capability in our bodies for dealing with the world, why would the brain be any different? There's way too much to be learned if the starting point is a blank slate.
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