Embodied Learning is Essential to Artificial Intelligence

Jeff Hawkins has a principle that intuitively makes a lot of sense, yet is something that Deep Learning research has not emphasized enough. This is the notion of embodied learning. That is, biological systems learn from interacting with the environment. Hawkins is of the opinion that the brain learns by interacting with its environment. The classic Deep Learning training procedure is one of the crudest teaching methods that one can possibly imagine.