(November 4, 2016 at 5:53 pm)Alasdair Ham Wrote: No this isn't comparable to a piece of technology... this is more comparable to a superintelligent mind. I mean, that's the relevant part. Who cares what it is made out of or if it is conscious or not.
A mind always has to be embodied. How it is embodied determines how it interacts with its environment and what it can learn from it.
Otherwise it's like having a computer with no internet connection or keyboard, or CD drive and just expecting it to get more intelligent by itself.