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>From: santas@inf.ethz.ch (Philip Santas)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: O-I ( other intelligence )
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Date: 29 Apr 92 15:23:08 GMT
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In article <1992Apr20.174626.3644@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com> petersow@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com (Wayne Peterson) writes:
>Dr Minsky writes in response to Mr Andrews:
>
>>Good questions!  I often wonder how to find out, when my cat jumps up
>>onto a table, if it has some sort of representation for anticipating
>>finding a surface when it gets there.
>
>What concept of gravity must a dolphin have as it jumps out
>of the water.  In the water there must be little experience of
>gravity because of the water's buoyancy. The dolphin could think
>that it would never return to the water, like a leap into space.

Dolphins do not know in advance what 'out of the water' means, until they 
are really there; but during their first experience, they learn that they 
return back. Unfortunately this is not always the case with people
during their first encounter with water, although they have a quite
rich representation repertoir...

Philip Santas

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