The most significant moment in the course of intellectual development, which gives birth to the purely human forms of practical and abstract intelligence, occurs when speech and practical activity, two previously completely independent lines of development, converge.
1930 Lev Vygotsky in Mind and Society (transcribed by Andy Blunden and Nate Schmolze)
Because it is a key insight (stated in 1930) into the development of practical intelligence, i.e. intelligence applicable to general and real life problems, which the AI community has arrived at only in the late 1980s
1930 Lev Vygotsky in Mind and Society (transcribed by Andy Blunden and Nate Schmolze)
Online: http://www.cles.mlc.edu.tw/~cerntcu/099-curriculum/Edu_Psy/EP_03_New.pdf
HitaRQ? There have been many theories of child development. What singles this one out as noteworthy?
Because it is a key insight (stated in 1930) into the development of practical intelligence, i.e. intelligence applicable to general and real life problems, which the AI community has arrived at only in the late 1980s
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embodied_cognition#History_of_AI