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>From: krom@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Kevin M Krom)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Animal Intelligence vs Human Intelligence
Message-ID: <1991Nov15.235744.25719@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 15 Nov 91 23:57:44 GMT
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In article <37995@shamash.cdc.com> map@svl.cdc.com writes:
>If you are refering to the fact that the eye is constantly moving, even
>when we think we are holding it still, then this illustrates nicely
>exactly what I'm saying - I don't have to do anything for this to happen,
>i.e., it happens automatically.  The point is, nobody has to teach me
>how to see, or how to hear, or how to taste,  I just do it.  I don't need a 
>"method" to do these correctly, but I definitely need a method to think
>correctly (e.g., logic), and I have to *choose* to learn and follow that
>method.

Not really.  The basic sensations of sight, hearing, taste, etc... are inherent
to everybody, but how these sensations are interpreted are all learned.
Either your enviroment (i.e. other people) helps you order your sensations
into something usable, or you have to learn it yourself.  Either way, in order
to say that a particular pattern of light causing stimulation on your retina
corresponds to a particular object is a learned response.  Bringing this idea
to computer vision (seems to be the best allegory) yields: the computer picks
up patterns from the camera, either a) a program is written to help the
computer determine what the object is (enviroment), or b) the computer may be
able to match a memory of that pattern to a very similar pattern it reads
later (learning).  Anyway, I'd like to hear other's opinions on this, as I am
currently taking courses in robotics/computer vision/AI and psychology.

-- 
Kevin Krom
Purdue Class of '92 (I hope)


