Andy Clark writes that “the key to such developing capabilities is the robot’s or infant’s capacity to maintain coordinated sensorimotor engagement with its environment.”7 A driving experience that provides impoverished feedback limits such engagement, and would seem to promote a kind of regression—back into the womb. Let me concede that this can be nice, especially on a long drive on the interstate. The ideal thing would be to enter a coma. Or perhaps to be like the passive kitten on the carousel.
