Carlos, I think that was my point, although I am starting to get confused. (see below).
It makes no sense to speak of mind as IN the body because it is an activity OF the body. Nick Nicholas Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson > [Original Message] > From: Carlos Gershenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]> > Date: 7/19/2006 10:52:11 AM > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] computer models of the mind > > > Minds do not, in our common talk, have arms, legs, mouths, eyes, etc., > > Yes, but you cannot have a (human) mind without a body. > > In a similar way, you cannot have e.g. Linux running without a PC, > and Linux doesn't have a CPU, HD, RAM, etc... > > This has lead people to either aim at real world robotics as the only > way forward in AI, or at developing inside the computer complex > bodies and environments... > > Best regards, > > Carlos Gershenson... > Centrum Leo Apostel, Vrije Universiteit Brussel > Krijgskundestraat 33. B-1160 Brussels, Belgium > http://homepages.vub.ac.be/~cgershen/ > > To know your limits you need to go beyond them >
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