"Taking the world to consist of discrete intelligible mesoscale objects is an *achievement* of intelligence, not a premise on top of which intelligence runs." -- Brian Cantwell Smith, from The Promise of Artificial Intelligence
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what’s the argument for that? do you think that is a (learned) achievement when a precocial animal does it within hours of birth?
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Read the book ;)
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Cantwell Smith's argument has more in common with Kant's Critique of Pure Reason than the more contemporary nature/nurture haggling. Evolutionary learning might account for much of the 'achievement' in question.
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ah, certainly agree with that.
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Hes right Gary. The entirety of the human thought catalogue is simply combinations of various qualia that we observe. We observe and the combinations are naturally created. Innate skills that you speak of can be explained away with simple non intelligent neural structures.
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What part is providing consciousness/awareness and schemas (models) of the environment for the initial learning to occur?
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