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Re:The Overfitted Brain: Dreams evolved to assist generaliza... by uxp100 on Sunday July 26, 2020 @02:46PM (#23959184)
> does that mean that it's invalid to say designing and making walking robots does require/provide insight into the physiology of legs?

Yes. That sounds invalid.

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Re:The Overfitted Brain: Dreams evolved to assist generaliza... by perl4ever on Sunday July 26, 2020 @06:12PM (#23960582)
That sounds overly binary to me. (said with conscious irony)

You are saying that the informational inputs and outputs for walking robots have exactly the same amount of relevance to biological limbs and biological control of walking as the engineering of steam locomotives?

Obviously they have aspects that are nothing like walking creatures. But the more they solve the same problems, the more they have to be similar, either intentionally or accidentally.

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