HitaRQ? There have been many theories of child development. What singles this one out as noteworthy?
Because it is a key insight (stated in 1930) into the development of practical intelligence, i.e. intelligence applicable to general and real life problems, which the AI community has arrived at only in the late 1980s
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embodied_cognition#History_of_AI
HitaRQ? There have been many theories of child development. What singles this one out as noteworthy?
Because it is a key insight (stated in 1930) into the development of practical intelligence, i.e. intelligence applicable to general and real life problems, which the AI community has arrived at only in the late 1980s
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embodied_cognition#History_of_AI