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Thanks for the kind words.
It may seem odd initially that feminist philosophy has done the heavy lifting theoretically to refute the utter lack of an appreciation of embodiment as integral to any useful AHI, both within and without philosophy. It leaks out of everywhere all at once when we address the issue of intelligence in the contexts…
Thanks for the kind words.
It may seem odd initially that feminist philosophy has done the heavy lifting theoretically to refute the utter lack of an appreciation of embodiment as integral to any useful AHI, both within and without philosophy. It leaks out of everywhere all at once when we address the issue of intelligence in the contexts of perception, otherness, bias/error management, attention management, teleology itself (where most feminism is rooted), and the robust foundation of perspective. The complaint of patriarchal dominance, which we typically dismiss as a self-interested or relatively marginal side-issue in science and cognition, is addressed there mostly through unappreciated and ironically gender-neutral aspects of embodiment. Meanwhile, brute force training and disembodied brain thought experiments are as common as ever, and our resultant poor modeling, our dualities if you will, catch up with us via world and local events that reflect it.
Such an interesting comparison/equivalence, with feminism - wow :) Going to think about AGI in terms of this, thank you :)
Animal bodies, "even" a "lowly" worm, exhibit intelligence, far removed from the world of spoken and written word (bye bye, language models!), symbolic reasoning, etc. Same with a newborn (literally) giraffe baby, spider... Either we dismiss these as irrelevant, or we admit that current approaches are narrow/lacking.
The body (mechanism) *is* the 'computer'!
https://medium.com/@jcbaillie/why-ai-needs-a-body-793a9bee3b9b
Mild steerage- feminism is a laden word and concept that entails way too much. Feminist philosophy grew out of and is related to mostly basic aspects of feminism, and is by now broad and often having little to do with gender. It has tentacles in many fields ostensibly unrelated like the teleosemantics i spend a lot of time with, works on signs and kinds, embodiment, and many others.
These all seem like juicy angles for considering embodiment! Signs, places, directions, space... all are immaterial to disembodied AI - hmmm.