CS 365 : Artificial Intelligence

Do we need body for intelligence or not?

Relevant Links -

• Artificial Intelligence : Wikipidea
• Paper on Confirmatoin Theory
• Artificial Intelligene - A Modern Approach Chapter 1
• Jean Piaget : Wikipidea
• Reasons for fall of expert systems
• Emvodied Cognition

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Topics Discussed -

• What is body and what is intelligence?
• According to Confirmation Theory experience necessary for intelligence and experience can only be gained by having a body.
• How human brain size developed due to an observing body?
• There can be no learning without body.
• Fall of expert systems due to lack of learning ability.
• Expert Systems flawed due to the fact that the number of rules to describe any situation are infinite.
• Jean Piaget's stages of child development and their ability to learn through their experimentation which requires body.

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Points Raised by Sir-

Body does many actions which are not processed by the mind. Such reflex actions are necessary for exhibiting intelligent behaviour.