The Human Machine
Assembling or Creating: Mind Body Problem reflecting in machine design

It doesn't seem a big difference but seeing mind and body as one or as two has HUGE impact

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Considering mind and body as different entities leads to computers consisting of a Central Processor Unit and a passive storage part. You can see it as a body with a removable soul. That in its turn lead to machines having an intelligent removable 'brain' and a large distance controlled muscle 'part'
(industrialism)

Imagine yourself a robot built that way to try to imitate human extreme skyjumpers. I.e. jumping out of a plane and accelerating head down direction earth playing with the air. The human body is the ultimate machine, and enjoys doing this. I'm afraid the poor robot will end on a scrap heap. There's no brute force that could have made him make the necessary subtle movements to fly.

This to indicate 2 things:
1. Brain Science is still a huge way from even nearing brain capabilities.
Suggesting so is extremely arrogant and awfully ignorant. Robots playing chess is easy, but robots skateboarding or making love is of another level.
2. Artificially splitting brain and body will 'never' result in robots as subtle as a human body with integrated mind.

assembling: 1 building plan, method: imitating creating:no building plan, method: active thinking

When seeing mind and body as integrated one should create robots with lots of local intelligence. Machines that can't be taken apart. You can't split head and body of karate warriors, they learned to react as one. That also is their unique force. Symbiosis beats constructing in units.

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