I was questioning "Why bother to keep the magnus' bodies alive?
I was questioning "Why bother to keep the magnus' bodies alive? on another thread, and I think I might be satisfied with this answer:
"...long before we were conscious, thinking beings, our cells were reading data from the environment and working together to mould us into robust, self-sustaining agents. What we take as intelligence, then, is not simply about using symbols to represent the world as it objectively is. Rather, we only have the world as it is revealed to us, which is rooted in our evolved, embodied needs as an organism. Nature ‘has built the apparatus of rationality not just on top of the apparatus of biological regulation, but also from it and with it’, wrote the neuroscientist Antonio Damasio in Descartes’ Error (1994), his seminal book on cognition. In other words, we think with our whole body, not just with the brain."
Perhaps, in recruiting adult bodies, the architects of the machine get a couple decades or more of biological expertise at sorting and prioritizing human, earthly, input, not just from one point of view but from multiple "archetypes" of humans?
https://aeon.co/ideas/the-body-is-the-missing-link-for-truly-intelligent-machines
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"...long before we were conscious, thinking beings, our cells were reading data from the environment and working together to mould us into robust, self-sustaining agents. What we take as intelligence, then, is not simply about using symbols to represent the world as it objectively is. Rather, we only have the world as it is revealed to us, which is rooted in our evolved, embodied needs as an organism. Nature ‘has built the apparatus of rationality not just on top of the apparatus of biological regulation, but also from it and with it’, wrote the neuroscientist Antonio Damasio in Descartes’ Error (1994), his seminal book on cognition. In other words, we think with our whole body, not just with the brain."
Perhaps, in recruiting adult bodies, the architects of the machine get a couple decades or more of biological expertise at sorting and prioritizing human, earthly, input, not just from one point of view but from multiple "archetypes" of humans?
https://aeon.co/ideas/the-body-is-the-missing-link-for-truly-intelligent-machines
[embed]https://aeon.co/ideas/the-body-is-the-missing-link-for-truly-intelligent-machines[/embed]
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