You're looking at Less Wrong's discussion board. This includes all posts, including those that haven't been promoted to the front page yet. For more information, see About Less Wrong.

entirelyuseless comments on The AI in Mary's room - Less Wrong Discussion

4 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 24 May 2016 01:19PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (58)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: entirelyuseless 28 May 2016 12:14:18PM -1 points [-]

Yes. People can even immediately identify visual objects as corresponding to previously known tactile objects (probably via analogous relationship of parts), even though not perfectly.

Comment author: selylindi 20 July 2016 01:01:26AM *  0 points [-]

I'm under the impression that the empirical fact about this is exactly the opposite:

"Within a week to a few months after surgery, the children could match felt objects to their visual counterparts."

i.e. not immediate, but rather requiring the development of experience