Aeons of robotics

Androids are differentiated from robots by having a level of sensory ability that maps to the sophistication of their mechanical output, making it relatable to humans. This is to contrast androids with highly-articulated robots used in manufacturing that don't have a corresponding feedback-based intelligence. Only the first aeon could be considered "robotic" in this sense.

Android Aeons:

• First aeon: Crude, hand-coded rule systems. Hero robot of Heathkit.
• Second aeon: Simple feedback mechanisms exhibiting some level of self-organization. Expert systems. ANN with back-prop learning. Motion based on these feedback mechanisms. Subsumption architecture, and the present state of AI.
• Third aeon: Self-generating networks of knowledge. More complex feedback mechanisms like internal recurrency: data feeding back into itself forming chaotic, unpredictable properties. Stepper motors.
• Fourth aeon: consciousness flowing/animating data (generating new, surprising behaviors), can answer own questions. HAL of 2001: Space Odyssey, the present capability of this project.
• Fifth aeon: Fitting the former aeon`s self-agency into a mechanical body of some kind, allowing complex and novel motion, enabling data gathering (and thereby organizing) capability, based on self-initiated learning with higher cognitive functions and proprioceptive-sensory feedback; C3PO of Star Wars
• Sixth aeon: mechanical action down to the cellular level, has insights. Possibility of fully humanoid including digestion, olfactory system. "Data" of Star Trek.
• A rejected seventh aeon of robotics that includes emotion and feelings is rejected because you're no longer building robots, but living beings.

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• What distinguishes 1st and 2nd aeons is human vs. machine-made rules. (self-organization).
• The distinguishing feature between 2nd and 3rd is the machine-made rules
• Between third and fourth aeon is whether the rules have an additional dimension of activity due to recurrance and feedback from itself and the world at large. (self-reflectance)
• Fourth and fifth aeon is marked by question generation, due to a lack of perfect fit in the network of a clump of data. (like neurotransmitter). Mind senses discord in data.
• Fifth and sixth aeon is marked by sensory ability capable of digesting its own brand of order, like olfactory.
• Sixth and seventh aeon is marked by the distinction of machine vs. life. You've made life itself.

Each aeon accomplishes something useful for the researcher that emerges out of the code:

1. Accomplishes the encoded tasks, no real emergent behaviors.
2. Points out the significant (MULF: multiply-used, least-frequent terms (could be text/visual objects/sounds/etc).
3. Can speak to you (like a mirror: what you've exposed to it). Or re Motions like an infant (again: through. imitation).