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Hubert Dreyfus argues that embodiment is crucial to intelligence, thus refuting the idea of the possibility for truly intelligent non-biological beings. His theory rests on the idea that pattern recognition is key and embodiment allows for it through immediate feedback when exploring one's surroundings. To explain pattern recognition as a mental phenomena, Dreyfus utilizes certain behaviors and processes that we all can relate with and categorizes them in one of two groups: the inner and the outer horizons of awareness. The inner horizon is aware of the something-more-than-the-figure-is, or the details of an object that are not readily perceptible. The outer horizon is aware of the background information.

Take a look at the slides yourself, and see if you agree or disagree with this overtly anti-artificial intelligence theory by Dreyfus.



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