Chapter 24: Perception
This chapter is about feelings, or how to sense the world through sensors. It's too engineering for me so I skipped it.
Chapter 25: Robotics
This chapter is about robotics, actuators, or how to actually move around in the world. This is about the most traditional and engineering part of the textbook, and quite out of my part, so I'll skim it as much as I skimmed technical stuff in mechanical engineering during my study of Newtonian physics.
My favorite part from the chapter is a game:
Exercise 25.11: pretend to be a robot! A game for people from kindergarten to PhD!
I can think of a few variations on this game: First, to make communication strictly minimal, players should only communicate through text messages and webcams. Second, instead of one person playing the brain, why not use two? One for each hemisphere! The left brain can only see the right eye and control the right hand, and vice versa. Then there will be six players.
And we can even imagine a game of epiphenomenon.
Wait a minute, this sounds just like specialization...
