User:CharlesGillingham/More/Moravec's paradox

The hierarchy of human faculties

Hamlet. how noble in reason ...

Embodiment in cognitive science

The complex plane.

Cognitive scientists George Lakoff, Mark Turner and others believe that abstract reasoning is "embodied", and by this they mean that abstract reasoning requires us to use knowledge and skills that we gain from "the body", including our half a billion year old sensorimotor and perceptual skills. Lakoff and Ralph Nunes argued in YEAR! that we understand abstract concepts by thinking of simple physical situations (sometimes called "image schema"). For example, to understand the mathematical concept of imaginary numbers, we picture the rotation of a an arrow across a mental picture (the complex plane). In doing this, we are using our visual cortex and our skills in reasoning about space.

Also mention Dreyfus (?)

Building intelligent machines

Moravec believes this paradox is "a giant clue to how we should proceed in building an intellient machine.". Artificial intelligence researchers like David Marr, Rodney Brooks and Hans Moravec have argued very forcefully that artificial intelligence must begin with our sensorimotor skills, since our abstract skills depend upon them. We must do the hard part first, building intelligence from the "bottom-up".