>> Here’s the meat of The Mind in the Wheel: the mind is made out of units called control systems. I see someone re-invented Rodney Brooks' Subsumption Archite

>> Here’s the meat of The Mind in the Wheel: the mind is made out of units called control systems. I see someone re-invented Rodney Brooks' Subsumption Architecture [1]. It's a good idea but it doesn't work. Enfin, it works, but up to a certain point, which is how well robotics work today. Yes roombas and industrial robots. No robot maids/butlers and no level-5 self-driving cars. Sure doesn't work as a model of a human mind. I don't think Brooks even had the temerity to suggest it should tbh. More importantly this just goes to show what happens when psychologists and AI scientists stop talking to each other, the former because they're lost up their own bums [2] and the latter because they've switched focus to creating the next automated shaker of the magick money tree. What happens is that the ... well, wheel, keeps getting reinvented, over and over again, and nobody is really trying to make, you know, a vehicle. With wheels. That do something else than just sit there being wheel-y. _________________ [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsumption_architecture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsumption_architecture [2] I just mean the reproducibility crisis.