> Boyuan Chen, a roboticist at Duke University who is working on developing intelligent robots, pointed out that the human mind — or any other animal mind, for that matter — is inextricable from the body’s actions in and reactions to the real world, shaped over millions of years of evolution.
I'm a little surprised to learn that some people believe intelligence can be separated from the body. Intelligence didn't develop in a vacuum, then get poured into the body — it developed both evolutionary and in the case of you personally as a result of being a body in the world. It isn't something you can separate from our senses, or the physical world we inhabit. Anything else feels like mind-body dualism to me. That, or a science fiction model of the brain as being functionally like a squishy computer chip, just waiting to have programs uploaded into it.
I'm a little surprised to learn that some people believe intelligence can be separated from the body. Intelligence didn't develop in a vacuum, then get poured into the body — it developed both evolutionary and in the case of you personally as a result of being a body in the world. It isn't something you can separate from our senses, or the physical world we inhabit. Anything else feels like mind-body dualism to me. That, or a science fiction model of the brain as being functionally like a squishy computer chip, just waiting to have programs uploaded into it.