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This paper argues that according to the relevant discoveries of cognitive science, in AGI systems perception should be subjective, active, and unified with other processes. This treatment of perception is fundamentally different from the mainstream approaches in computer vision and machine learning, where perception is taken to be objective, passive, and modular. The conceptual design of perception in the AGI system NARS is introduced, where the three features are realized altogether. Some preliminary testing cases are used to show the features of this novel approach.
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Wang, P., Hammer, P. (2018). Perception from an AGI Perspective. In: Iklé, M., Franz, A., Rzepka, R., Goertzel, B. (eds) Artificial General Intelligence. AGI 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10999. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97676-1_25
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