Well, if you want it to develop an intuition for mechanical physics, sure. but that doesn't required for intelligence (and even if it were - connect the thing t

Well, if you want it to develop an intuition for mechanical physics, sure. but that doesn't required for intelligence (and even if it were - connect the thing to a Havok-based sim). You're right that for an intelligence to develop as humans' do, it needs constant feedback. But there are billions (?) of humans on the web...there are ways for an AI to get feedback. Okay, though. I do see your point...human-like strong AI might grow better in a robot body than as pure software, other things being equal. It's a maybe, for a subset of AIs (those that develop like human intelligences), but fair enough.