Organismically-inspired robotics Di Paulo 200?

I wasn't expecting much but this was good. We are reading more di paolo in the lab meeting this week Seth 17:16, 31 October 2008 (EDT). Di paolo wants to see intentionality, or minimally intentional behavior. he proposes a robot that instead of simply seeking light, is capable of reorganizing itself after a perturbation of its senses to still seek light. That particular example just goes one level deeper than before.

interesting (for its own sake, not for me), narrative of the history of AI: "His (Dreyfus'] critical stance was unusual, at least for most GOFAI practitionars, in that it did not rely on technical issues, but on a philosophical position emanating from phenomenology and existentioaims, " -I think it is safe to say that AI didn't really care.

"..what Varela called the reenchantment of the concrete (VArela 1995)"

His argument is that the problem with robots isn't merely a lack of complexity but a lack of intentional agency. Though seeing such agency will involve additional complexity, intention is more than turing test plausibility. I kind of think it is, that action only looks intentional.

"The organism has a formal and dynamic identity. It only coincides fully with its material constitution when it is dead" -My note says: "Sleep When UR Dead"

In the end, I'mnot sure he really changed my mind, It wasn't ultimately clear what he meant by intentional agency, which makes it hard for him to make a case for it.