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To: neolib who wrote (246427)	8/17/2005 10:41:46 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1572334

"Co-opting one system for another purpose has mostly likely happened many times." Sure. It is probably the most common mechanism in evolution. But I have a gut feeling that the reason why robotics has bogged down is that they don't implement an abstracted perceptual space. Now true, biological systems have bandwidth and computational restrictions that means they can't brute force it like we can do with computers, but the abstractions are extremely useful when doing pattern matching and other higher functions. Currently, robotics is a game of whack a mole. There just aren't many general solutions. Even those cases that seem similar generally turn into having a lot of special cases that need to be programmed around. Abstraction would solve a lot of problems. Except for the one that we don't really know how to do this...