Posted by
Nick Thompson on
Feb 06, 2011; 12:32am
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/A-question-for-your-Roboteers-out-there-tp5996169p5996765.html
No you haven't and I wish you would!
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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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