You edited your comment after I replied. I am sorry about your friend, I hope they are better. I am not saying that at all. Daniel Dennet is better placed to s

You edited your comment after I replied. I am sorry about your friend, I hope they are better. I am not saying that at all. Daniel Dennet is better placed to speculate on matters like that. [/edit] perhaps there is some common ground. Brooks' Behaviour-Based position, though useful at the time, threw out the symbolic AI with the bathwater of computational complexity that robotics was quagmired in then.