Tag: philosophy of mind
8 quotes
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What we once took to be the clear light of awareness may be more like a story our brains tell about recursive processes.
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Intelligence is whatever machines haven’t done yet.
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These early days of AI are already absurd. Humans, walking and talking bags of water and trace chemicals that we are, have managed to convince well-organized sand to pretend to think like us.
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A self is an individually evolved—I use the word ‘evolved’ on purpose—product of a variety of natural selection that trains up the emotional drivers in each of us and achieves a level of balance. It’s an entente. It’s a ruse of sorts...
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Large language models like GPT have no reflective consciousness. That’s why saying GPT is “slightly conscious” is like saying a field of wheat is slightly pasta.
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The exercise of treating machine intelligence as real requires people to reduce their mooring to reality.
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Our minds don’t reside exclusively in our brains or bodies, but extend out into the physical environment
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Having feelings does not make you irrational. Believing that the world must be a certain way because of your feelings does.