Posted by
lrudolph on
Feb 05, 2011; 8:53pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/A-question-for-your-Roboteers-out-there-tp5996169p5996328.html
On 5 Feb 2011 at 12:29, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
> At what point in the complexity of a robot (or any other control system)
> does it begin to seem useful to parse input into "information about the
> system itself" and "information about other things"?
From the beginning, it's useful to parse input into
"information about what you know how to modify"
and "information about what you can't modify or don't
know how to". It seems to me that self/other builds
(possibly destructively) on that prior distinction,
at least among the robot(icist)s I've seen. Nick,
did I ever tell you about the "emergence" of
"pointing behavior" in a robot they run out at
UMass?
Now I *will* run. More later no doubt.
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