1-10. Beyond Movements

Figure 8, which shows model-based control system designs, may be referred to for considering a mental model as a controlled object. For the present, computer simulation cannot reproduce this model because it lacks a computational basis. This difficulty is like the one that arose in the field of artificial intelligence. More than 50 years ago, a group of computer scientists proposed a study that would “... proceed on the basis of the conjecture that every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it.” These scientists were eager to make “... an attempt to find how to make computers that use language, form abstractions and concepts, solve kinds of problem....McCarthy et al., 1955