Nobody can look at the patterns of connectivity (or of anything else) in a brain and figure out whether it belongs to somebody who knows algebra, or who speaks English, or who believes that Washington was the Father of his country. — Jerry Fodor In Critical Condition: Polemic Essays on ...
their usefulness is extremely limited. They can help humans brainstorm, and they can entertain us. But, knowing how glitchy and prone to failure these models are, it’s probably not a good idea to trust them with your credit card details, your sensitive information, or any critical use cas...
(Hillis’s connection machine doesn’t have one large central processing unit as other computers do but a network of 64,000 small units--roughly analogous in concept, if not in size, to the brain’s network of 40 billion neuronal processing units. ) "I’ve added up the things 1 want ...
and far too little time at lectures, I had a knack for passing examinations, and that, for years, had been the measure of success in my life and that of my peers.
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Abstract beauty, like art, landscapes and music, are an artefact of culture and the way our brain interprets color, shapes and sound. The world is not always beautiful: decay/entropy in physical systems and disease/death among living creatures are natural functions of physics and biology. For...
They actually say that there are no mental states, that there is only the brain. Which is kind of an odd thing to say because what eliminative materialists are saying is that their ideas are mindless. How can you have a proposition that the mind doesn’t exist? That means propositions ...
Ilya: I think, yeah, looking at the brain and specifically, if you like, all those things follow very easily if you allow yourself to accept the idea. Right now this idea is reasonably well accepted. Back then people still talked about it, but they haven't really accepted it or internal...
It’s becoming clear that with all the brain and consciousness theories out there, the proof will be in the pudding. By this I mean, can any particular theory be used to create a human adult level conscious machine. My bet is on the late Gerald Edelman’s Extended Theory of Neuronal Gro...
Theory feels good. Pithiness and analogy feel good. A tight sentence feels good. Neat and snappy stories about what’s “true” are like candy to the sense-craving part of the human brain. Notice how many smart people believe things like, “You can’t reason yourself out of a belief yo...