Brain, Body and World

From: Joaquim Almgren Gândara (claw@lords.com)
Date: Fri Sep 15 2000 - 12:55:01 MDT

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Has anyone here read "Being There" by Andy Clark (MIT Press, 1997)? It's already a bit outdated, but it sure seems like a good read. I haven't had time to finish it yet, but Clark discusses whether or not an AI can truly understand anything without interacting with a world, talks about embodied intelligence and how classical AI fails miserably since it tries to separate the brain from the body (and thus the world).

Read it if you haven't already! :)

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