There would have to be a bunch of things your Bayesian Superintelligence would have to already know, as near as I can tell, to get all that. First, it’d have to somehow or other have worked out the earth is round, that stuff falls toward the center of the earth rather than in some universal “down” direction. That would help it get the hint that gravitation can vary depending on location. If it also knew of various astronomical objects and their apparent motions in the sky, then it’d have a good starting point to go in the direction you suggest.
But it’d also have to have made enough other observations to at least get the hint about locality. I concede that for a BS… er… maybe a different acronym would be better… anyways, for one of those, it probably wouldn’t take too much observation to at least have a good suspicion about the importance of locality. Basically, noticing that things like distance/time/etc actually do seem relevant to how things interact. ie, enough observation to notice that there are properties like distance and time would, I suspect, be enough.
But one apple falling, on its own, without all the surrounding context of apples, falling, ground, earth, sky, probably wouldn’t do it.
I agree with Pedro about point 3.
There would have to be a bunch of things your Bayesian Superintelligence would have to already know, as near as I can tell, to get all that. First, it’d have to somehow or other have worked out the earth is round, that stuff falls toward the center of the earth rather than in some universal “down” direction. That would help it get the hint that gravitation can vary depending on location. If it also knew of various astronomical objects and their apparent motions in the sky, then it’d have a good starting point to go in the direction you suggest.
But it’d also have to have made enough other observations to at least get the hint about locality. I concede that for a BS… er… maybe a different acronym would be better… anyways, for one of those, it probably wouldn’t take too much observation to at least have a good suspicion about the importance of locality. Basically, noticing that things like distance/time/etc actually do seem relevant to how things interact. ie, enough observation to notice that there are properties like distance and time would, I suspect, be enough.
But one apple falling, on its own, without all the surrounding context of apples, falling, ground, earth, sky, probably wouldn’t do it.