Truly general-purpose intelligence can emerge only when everything happens all at once: In intelligent creatures like our humble rat, all perception (including auditory and visual inputs, or the brain areas responsible for the generation of fine finger movements), emotion, actions, and reactions combine and interact to guide behavior. Perceiving without action, emotion, higher reasoning, and learning would not only fail to lead to a general purpose AI, it wouldn't even pass a commonsense Turing test.
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD. on 17 Jan 16"The FSF is surveying computer users in an effort to renew its relevance, asking users for input on all manner of free and open source software issues. "
