Assuming that part of the personality of a cat is the fact that it is hard-wired to be attracted to small fast moving objects, and assuming that humans have a slew of traits/instincts which we are mostly unaware of through over familiarity.
Without hard-coding stimuli, and without comparable stimuli audio/visual/touch/anatonmical/environmental, will we ever be able to develop human-type intelligence; and should this take the form of a different hardware platform rather than trying to achieve the equivalent of coding a fully functional desktop operating system on a one dimensional Turing machine?
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Assuming that part of the personality of a cat is the fact that it is hard-wired to be attracted to small fast moving objects, and assuming that humans have a slew of traits/instincts which we are mostly unaware of through over familiarity.
Without hard-coding stimuli, and without comparable stimuli audio/visual/touch/anatonmical/environmental, will we ever be able to develop human-type intelligence; and should this take the form of a different hardware platform rather than trying to achieve the equivalent of coding a fully functional desktop operating system on a one dimensional Turing machine?