Introducing the concept of field

 I have students bring two fairly strong ceramic magnets (but not supermagnets) together in opposition. When repelling you experience something that feels like an invisible putty ball between the magnets. I point out that there is a "sixth sense" that magnetotactic bacteria have* but humans do not. I also point out that when a compass needle turns, or if the magnets in their hand flip, work is being done so magnetic fields have energy and by Einstein's E=mcc magnetic fields must also have mass. So fields are like matter but not composed of atoms. 

* See for example Magnetic Navigation in Bacteria, Scientific American, Dec. 1981.   

A.s.a. H., T, R, S

 Spacio-temporal scaling*, translation, reflection, rotation, and shearing are important for pattern matching. I did some work on those algorithms during the early development of A.s.a. F. But computer vision, speech, and the like are such  popular fields that more recently I have left this work to others.** At some point this must be better integrated with A.s.a. H. 

* Average human speech, for example, is 120-150 words per minute while the fastest (barely understandable) is perhaps 667 WPM. 

** I have employed temporal scaling and translation in A.s.a. H.

Disembodied AIs*

 Having used robots' senses to ground/define some basic concepts one might then consider turning off** one or more (all?) of these input channels after some initial learning phase. I am currently experimenting with doing this with A.s.a. H.

* See, for example, my blogs of 27 May 2014 and 1 May 2019 and references therein.

** Permanently or perhaps only temporarily (as another attention mechanism).