Comments on: Greetings from Rome http://www.clintrogersonline.com/blog/2007/09/03/greetings-from-rome/ Blog of P. Clint Rogers, PhD: Culture, Training, and Technology Specialist Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:03:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 By: Joseph http://www.clintrogersonline.com/blog/2007/09/03/greetings-from-rome/#comment-130 Joseph Wed, 05 Sep 2007 21:58:31 +0000 http://www.clintrogersonline.com/blog/2007/09/03/greetings-from-rome/#comment-130 Wow. Camped out at the end of the world! That's awesome. I followed your signature here and poked around for a minute. I had a general idea, but I don't think I ever learned specifically what your research was about. You do cool things. So here's a question for you; If you had a tabula rasa individual and time and resources to accomplish whatever it takes, how would you go about designing the set of experiences that person that would enable that person to successfully interact with a particular group? And I truly mean a blank slate, without having ever experienced gravity, vision, eating, or anything; but with all the faculties and capacities that are organically innate to humans. If we created a robot in the image of a human, what would it need to learn to work along-side a human in the home? Wow. Camped out at the end of the world! That’s awesome. I followed your signature here and poked around for a minute. I had a general idea, but I don’t think I ever learned specifically what your research was about. You do cool things.

So here’s a question for you;
If you had a tabula rasa individual and time and resources to accomplish whatever it takes, how would you go about designing the set of experiences that person that would enable that person to successfully interact with a particular group? And I truly mean a blank slate, without having ever experienced gravity, vision, eating, or anything; but with all the faculties and capacities that are organically innate to humans. If we created a robot in the image of a human, what would it need to learn to work along-side a human in the home?

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