> If cognition is embodied, that raises problems for artificial intelligence. Since computers don’t have bodies, let alone sensations, what are the implications of these findings for their becoming conscious—that is, achieving strong AI? Lakoff is uncompromising: "It kills it." Of Ray Kurzweil’s singularity thesis, he says, "I don’t believe it for a second." Computers can run models of neural processes, he says, but absent bodily experience, those models will never actually be conscious.
Well, then let's simulate the body as well once we got the brain right.
I wonder whether our agreement upon the ugliness of Fourier artifacts (such as ringing) stems from a learned distaste for low quality image and video compression.
Well, then let's simulate the body as well once we got the brain right.