While you're not wrong, I suspect that people focusing on this will lead to less fast robotics development. It's in a similar vein to how "you can prove that a

While you're not wrong, I suspect that people focusing on this will lead to less fast robotics development. It's in a similar vein to how "you can prove that a single layer neural network exists that does the same thing as a combination of many neural networks", something that led to a lot of people focusing on single level NNs for "purity's sake" and causing an AI winter. Like yeah, maybe you don't "need" sensor and motor data. Especially if you build what you're calling a "good" model. But making a "good" model that gets results might be near impossible and building a "less good" model that does use sensor data, and performs far better on real tasks, might be way easier for us mere mortals to do.