From: Doug Jones (random@qnet.com)
Date: Thu Jul 08 1999 - 10:18:00 MDT
Darin Sunley wrote:
>
> Piaget established reasonably firmly that human infants, at
> various stages up to about 7-8 years, are not merely less
> knowledgeable adults, but their brains (basic operations like
> perception, causal analysis) work in completely different ways
> then adults. To describe an adult brain with adult knowledge/
> perceptual structures probably requires a lot more data then to
> describe an infant's mind, which (as I understand it) is array
> upon array of undifferentiated "learning" structures.
Well, of course- a human infant is an AI seed, of sorts. Dependent
upon existing systems (adults) for the bootstrapping process...
Uplifting ourselves without a patron race around to help will be
tough.
-- Doug Jones
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