Embodiment and the inner life
by Murray Shanahan · first published 2010
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To understand the mind and its place in nature is one of the great intellectual challenges of our time, a challenge that is both scientific and philosophical. How does cognition influence an animal's behaviour? What are its neural underpinnings? How is the inner life of a human being constituted? This book approaches these questions.
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Also Shanahan's "Embodiment and the Inner Life" is well-written http://www.amazon.com/Embodiment-inner-life-Cognition-Consci...
on “Video games are essential for inventing artificial intelligence” ↗I always liked the code Easter egg in Ex Machina. A scene with Caleb has a Python script visible on screen that, when run, prints: ISBN = 9780199226559 This is Murray Shanahan’s Embodiment and the inner life: Cognition and Consciousness in the Space of Possible Minds, quite relevant to the film.
on “C++: The Programming Language back cover raises questions not answered by front” ↗This is kind of a weird discussion. "Embodiment" here seems to mean "having a body," i.e. being able to perform motor tasks in the external world (as opposed to the way it's used in "Embodiment and the Inner Life" [1]). In that case, I don't think embodiment could ever be considered a necessary condition for AGI. But AGI would need to be able to learn motor tasks if given a body (in order to be called "general").…
on “Embodiment is indispensable for AGI” ↗