Posted by
Jochen Fromm-5 on
Feb 06, 2011; 9:25am
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/A-question-for-your-Roboteers-out-there-tp5996169p5997297.html
Hi Nick,
I would say language is the key, it is useful
if the robot understands language. A robot
usually cannot recognize or perceive itself,
if it is not able to understand language.
In animals, information about the system
itself is so important that it is usually
processed and controlled by an own system,
the limbic system and the autonomic nervous
system, or in other words, largely by emotions.
So "information about the system itself" is
processed by the limbic system, and "information
about other things" by the cerebral cortex.
If robots are able to understand things
through language, then the point where
they start to distinguish "information about
the system itself" and "information about
other things" is the point where self-awareness
begins. To know the self means to know where
the self ends, and where the rest of the world
begins.
-J.
----- Original Message -----
From: Nicholas Thompson
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2011 8:29 PM
Subject: [FRIAM] A question for your Roboteers out there
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"?
Nick
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