Perhaps. I'm still dubious that anything stated even semi-formally is actually going to make good pattern-match material in the right sense -- it appears to me that humans learn almost entirely by example, and stating those examples in a way that works in a human-like way seems hard unless you're creating essentially pseudo-senses.

I *firmly* believe that learning has an great deal to do with the senses, and with neural feedback from the higher cognitive layers to the lower sense-specific ones -- hence the crucial role that visualization often plays in learning, for example. I believe that the first serious learning machines will be highly sense-oriented, even if those senses don't match our own. I'll be curious to see if Minsky is taking that into account...