Someone had arranged a display of educational books in the lobby, one of which was a book entitled Mindstorms by Seymour Papert. I picked it up and, in reading it, started to run across some of the same names with which I was becoming familiar in the artificial intelligence field. I began to wonder if one could use the Logo programming language to explore artificial intelligence questions. I develop our intelligence, than in how computers can be made intelligent. As a teacher of adults, I am constantly impressed with how much people learn without school.
People pursue hobbies and memorize statistics for their sports hero's with seemingly little effort.
Humans seem to be especially interested in other people or things we can do with our hands and bodies, whether it be sports, music, or art. It seems to me that our brains must have developed primarily for the purpose of negotiating the three dimensional world. Humans seem to have developed the ability to utilize these same brain structures in a new way that yields abstractions and mental concepts. If this is true, then working with Logo and robotics appears to closely mimic how we actually learn about our world through exploration. In addition, we must formalize in our mind, processes we have done intuitively.