Frame for understanding “intelligence” should be broadened beyond “the agent”
If the significant complexity of intelligent behavior depends intimately on the concrete details of the agent’s embodiment and worldly situation, then perhaps intelligence as such should be understood as characteristic, in the first instance, of some more comprehensive structure than an internal, disembodied “mind”, whether artificial or natural.
—Haugeland, J., 2000: Mind Embodied and Embedded, p. 5. Chapter 9 in Haugeland, J., 2000: Having Thought: Essays in the Metaphysics of Mind. Harvard University Press.
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