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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt">Dear All,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt">I would like to share the following truths that I know from my studies and research works:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt">Any entity in the universe has one list of can-do tasks and one list of can-not-do tasks. “Whether a human being or a robot is task-specific or not” is a superficial issue which could
be totally ignored. It is wasting time to see such issue surfaces out again and again.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt">Biological development refers to the reproduction in biological manufacturing. Such reproduction does not contribute to the design of mind.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt">Social development is a process of gaining or growing experiences. Such development do contribute to the growth of knowledge and skills inside a mind. However, such progress is rooted
on learning which has a prerequisite of “being educable” as outlined in my book published in 2003 by World Scientific Publishing Co.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt">The discoveries made thousand years ago have told people that brain is brain while mind is mind. There are many experiments which could prove these discoveries. Such truth leads me to
make the following statement: brain develops while mind learns.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">5.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt">Humanoid robot includes body, brain, and mind. AI should be part of robotics. Robotics will drive the future growth of AI and prevents the third wave in AI to occur. Now, we have already
entered the era of AI 3.0 (i.e. third generation of AI, but not third wave). <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt">Warmest Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt">Ming XIE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt"><a href="http://society.robotics.sg/"><span style="color:#0563C1">http://society.robotics.sg</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt"><a href="http://www.pap.org.sg/our-party"><span style="color:#0563C1">http://www.pap.org.sg/our-party</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt"><a href="http://personal.ntu.edu.sg/mmxie" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0563C1">http://personal.ntu.edu.sg/mmxie</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt"><a href="http://www.editorialmanager.com/ijhr" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0563C1">http://www.editorialmanager.com/ijhr</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Juyang Weng <juyang.weng@gmail.com>
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, May 23, 2022 2:49 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Angelo Cangelosi <angelo.cangelosi@manchester.ac.uk>; Minoru Asada <asada@ams.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Xie Ming (Assoc Prof) <mmxie@ntu.edu.sg>; weng@cse.msu.edu; giulio.sandini@iit.it; Judith Bullent <jbullent@mit.edu>; Ron Arkin <arkin@gatech.edu>; bmilist <bmi@lists.cse.msu.edu>; Post Connectionists <connectionists@mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: New from the MIT Press: Cognitive Robotics, edited by Angelo Cangelosi and Minoru Asada<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-US">Dear Angelo and Minoru,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I would like to congratulate on the publication of the book.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-US">I browsed the book quickly. I would like to give you some quick feedback:<br>
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(1) About developmental robots: Missed task-nonspecificity which is the flagship concept of Autonomous Mental Development (AMD) published in Science 2001. For example, the six principles in Fig. 3.3 do not include task-nonspecificity, The principles in
Fig. 3.3 are vague, not unique timewise. They appear to have appeared many times before 2000 when computational development was discussed in Workshop on Development and Learning. For example, what was new with "Embodiment" for robotics at all? Is there
a robot that does not have a body? One important concept is "grounded" learning as in the acronym GENISAMA! Another unfortunate phenomena throughout the book is that I do not see any task-nonspecific emergent representations. All the representations that
I have seen are symbolic in nature.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-US">(2) The material in the book does not seem to give hope to end the brittleness of robotics. Chapter 23 does not provide any architectures nor algorithms for conscious learning. Developmental
Networks, DN-1, DN-2 and now DN-3 suggest that conscious learning is a necessary condition for animals to develop animal-like intelligence (and awareness of the external world and self). From the following paper, robots seem to need conscious learning to
end their high brittleness (e.g., igerant about whether it is doing any task well). I have received some strong resistance to conscious learning (e.g., not willing to even review), but this resistance to new science should fail soon like any resistances
to new sciences.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">(3) I looked through the book series that Ron Arkin edited. I was in his office about an AMD book that I was writing. The book series that Ran Arkin edits lacks task-nonspecificity and also conscious learning. Maybe
the series can improve soon if Ron is open minded.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times",serif;color:black">J. Weng, "An Algorithmic Theory of Conscious Learning", in Proc. 2022 3rd International Conf. on Artificial Intelligence in Electronics Engineering, pp. 1-10,
Bangkok, Thailand, Jan. 21-23, 2022. </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.cse.msu.edu/~weng/research/ConsciousLearning-AIEE22rvsd-cite.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times",serif">PDF file</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times",serif;color:black">.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times",serif;color:black">Best regards,</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times",serif;color:black">-John</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Juyang (John) Weng<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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