Mind Games: Game Engines as an Architecture for Intuitive Physics

2017/06/24 by Tomer Ullman, Tomer D. Ullman, Elizabeth S. Spelke +3 · 2 voices · 1 citation
Computer Science · Neuroscience · Psychology · #Child and Animal Learning Development #Cognitive Science and Education Research #Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms

paper · doi:10.1016/j.tics.2017.05.012

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Discussions

• Mind Games: Game Engines as an Architecture for Intuitive Physics [hn, 2 points, 0 comments]
• I think that prob means they are not really arguing with you. But the perspective(s) they are arguing with is real and mainstream e.g. 👇🏻. I suspect the real bugbear they're going at is very literal [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]