> Instead of trying to glue modalities together into a patchwork AGI, we should pursue approaches to intelligence that treat embodiment and interaction with the

> Instead of trying to glue modalities together into a patchwork AGI, we should pursue approaches to intelligence that treat embodiment and interaction with the environment as primary, and see modality-centered processing as emergent phenomena. Right so it’s embodied in a computer and humans are part of its environment that provide emergent experience to the AI to observe. The author glued modalities together by linking a body (a modal), environment (a modal), emergence (a modal). How does anything emerge if forces do not collaborate? The effects of gravity and electromagnetism do not act in a vacuum but a reality of stuff. Poetic exchange may engage some but Maxwell didn’t make electromagnetism “work” until he got rid of the imagined pulleys and levers to foster a metaphor. Not sure the point being suggested exists except as too bespoke an emergent property of language itself to apply usefully elsewhere. Transformers came along and revealed a whole lot of theory of consciousness to be useless pulleys and levers. Why is this theory not just more words attempting to instill the existence of non-essential essentials?