Epstein Secrets

urations that carry out sensorimotor and categorization tasks. The emergence of higher-level cognition from this approach seems rather unlikely. • Ben Kuipers and his colleagues INIK07, MKOS, NIKOalhave pursued an extremely innovative research program which combines qualitative reasoning and reinforcement

Objects, Natural Units and Natural Kinds 167 9.4.2 Events, Processes and Causality 168 9.4.3 Stuffs, States of Matter, Qualities 168 9.4.4 Surfaces, Limits, Boundaries, Media 168 9.4.5 What Kind of Physics Is Needed to Foster Human-like Intelligence? 169 9.5 Folk Psychology 170 9.5.1 Motivation, Requiredn

r the various cognitively-relevant properties of the environment from looking at data about the ev- eryday world. We agree in principle, and in fact Ben Kuipers and his colleagues have done some interesting work in this direction, showing that learning algorithms can infer some basics about the structure of

ness, graininess, stickiness, runniness, etc. 4. Distinguishing degrees of elasticity and fragility 5. Assessing separability of aggregates 9.4.4 Surfaces, Limits, Boundaries, Media Gibson IGit)77, Gil)791 has argued that naive physics is not mainly about objects but rather mainly about surfaces. Surfaces have a variety

igurations that carry out sensorimotor and categorization tasks. The emergence of higher-level cognition from this approach seems rather unlikely. e Ben Kuipers and his colleagues [MK07, MIX08, MIXO09]have pursued an extremely innovative research program which combines qualitative reasoning and reinforcement

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er the various cognitively-relevant properties of the environment from looking at data about the ev- eryday world. We agree in principle, and in fact Ben Kuipers and his colleagues have done some interesting work in this direction, showing that learning algorithms can infer some basics about the structure of s

hness, graininess, stickiness, runniness, etc. 4, Distinguishing degrees of elasticity and fragility 5. Assessing separability of aggregates 9.4.4 Surfaces, Limits, Boundaries, Media Gibson [Gib77, Gib79] has argued that naive physics is not mainly about objects but rather mainly about surfaces. Surfaces have a variety of