# HG changeset patch
# User Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu>
# Date 1395958643 14400
# Node ID b345650a0baa426a0e8cfe2bdd6136be9eafacbb
# Parent  763d13f77e037be224d5ed2ccf38b967051a7933
complete first draft of final chapter.

diff -r 763d13f77e03 -r b345650a0baa thesis/cortex.org
--- a/thesis/cortex.org	Thu Mar 27 17:57:01 2014 -0400
+++ b/thesis/cortex.org	Thu Mar 27 18:17:23 2014 -0400
@@ -1135,17 +1135,34 @@
 
 * Contributions
   
-  I created =CORTEX=, a complete environment for creating simulated
-  creatures. Creatures can use biologically inspired senses including
-  touch, proprioception, hearing, vision, and muscle tension. Each
-  sense has a uniform API that is well documented. =CORTEX= comes with
-  multiple example creatures and a large test suite. You can create
-  new creatures using blender, a free 3D modeling tool. I hope that
-  =CORTEX= will prove useful for research ranging from distributed
-  swarm creature simulation to further research in sensory
-  integration. 
+  In this thesis you have seen the =CORTEX= system, a complete
+  environment for creating simulated creatures. You have seen how to
+  implement five senses including touch, proprioception, hearing,
+  vision, and muscle tension. You have seen how to create new creatues
+  using blender, a 3D modeling tool. I hope that =CORTEX= will be
+  useful in further research projects. To this end I have included the
+  full source to =CORTEX= along with a large suite of tests and
+  examples. I have also created a user guide for =CORTEX= which is
+  inculded in an appendix to this thesis.
 
+  You have also seen how I used =CORTEX= as a platform to attach the
+  /action recognition/ problem, which is the problem of recognizing
+  actions in video. You saw a simple system called =EMPATH= which
+  ientifies actions by first describing actions in a body-centerd,
+  rich sense language, then infering a full range of sensory
+  experience from limited data using previous experience gained from
+  free play.
 
+  As a minor digression, you also saw how I used =CORTEX= to enable a
+  tiny worm to discover the topology of its skin simply by rolling on
+  the ground. 
+
+  In conclusion, the main contributions of this thesis are:
+
+  - =CORTEX=, a system for creating simulated creatures with rich
+    senses.
+  - =EMPATH=, a program for recognizing actions by imagining sensory
+    experience. 
 
 # An anatomical joke:
 # - Training