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Embodiment is part of the picture, but I also am not sure that we have yet developed structures that are capable of learning in the way that humans do, no matte

Embodiment is part of the picture, but I also am not sure that we have yet developed structures that are capable of learning in the way that humans do, no matter how rich the environment. Rocks, flatworms, and the Hoover Dam all have embodiment in the same complex world that we do, but none of them will ever coherently debate philosophy, because they have no structures capable of learning to do so. I’m not convinced that our RL agents do either.

visarga 9y ago
That's easy. Flatworms can't because we took the top spot and hogged resources. Give them a world where they are the most advanced species, and a few billion years, and they can debate philosophy too. What would happen if a flatworm came out of the sea and tried to take up land from us? Hoover Dam is not embodied because it is not an agent. An agent has good an bad, life and death. The Dam doesn't give a damn about any of it.