We’ve learned to make “machines that can mindlessly generate text. But we haven’t learned how to stop imagining the mind behind it.”

  • interolivary@beehaw.orgOP
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    My understanding is that we still do not have a great consensus on how our own brains operate - how we actually think.

    How our brains operate and how we think are in ways two different things, but my understanding is that you’re correct to a large extent. Then there’s the whole question of what consciousness even is.

    I was actually just reminded of a good article on consciousness, I’ll post it in !science@beehaw.org in just a mo

    edit: https://beehaw.org/post/448653

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      At this point we’re in philosophy rather than biology!

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        You can’t get a theory of mind out of biology or neurology alone, you need philosophy to make sense of things and actually build a theory of why. See eg. cognition science

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        Yes, deep questions about things like minds often end up in philosophy.