RE: Mindfulness or Mindlessness?
September 3, 2021 at 2:09 pm
(This post was last modified: September 3, 2021 at 2:17 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Boundary boxing is a form of model based control that should answer those questions.
It's a body model. A system is supplied with values for it's dimensions and information about it's environment. Interestingly, the values about it's dimensions don't have to be completely accurate..and are intentionally inaccurate in many cases as a buffer. The system then simulates itself in that environmental data, and this layer of processing between sensor input and collision avoidance systems..for example, offers clear and impressive advantages.
A functionalist would tell you that any system...organic or inorganic..which has a structure which provides this function, has a body model, and is using model based control. That body modeling doesn't reduce to and isn't limited to any specific individual body model or body models instantiation. The applications are tremendous, this is how autonomous navigation of a factory floor or on a highway (someday) is accomplished. The utility to a living creature write's itself.
Do you think that you have a body model? What do you use it for? Closes your eyes and then slowly open and close your hands. Can you see your hands? If you woke up in your bedroom on a pitch black night, could you find some cherished item on a table without the use of your eyes and minimal (if any) groping? Do you have an idea of how many steps you could take out of bed before you ran into a wall?
It's a body model. A system is supplied with values for it's dimensions and information about it's environment. Interestingly, the values about it's dimensions don't have to be completely accurate..and are intentionally inaccurate in many cases as a buffer. The system then simulates itself in that environmental data, and this layer of processing between sensor input and collision avoidance systems..for example, offers clear and impressive advantages.
A functionalist would tell you that any system...organic or inorganic..which has a structure which provides this function, has a body model, and is using model based control. That body modeling doesn't reduce to and isn't limited to any specific individual body model or body models instantiation. The applications are tremendous, this is how autonomous navigation of a factory floor or on a highway (someday) is accomplished. The utility to a living creature write's itself.
Do you think that you have a body model? What do you use it for? Closes your eyes and then slowly open and close your hands. Can you see your hands? If you woke up in your bedroom on a pitch black night, could you find some cherished item on a table without the use of your eyes and minimal (if any) groping? Do you have an idea of how many steps you could take out of bed before you ran into a wall?
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