wonderer1

You are remarkably confident in your beliefs about what I am assuming. Also quite wrong.

To answer your questions... Reliable patterns to observations. Yes there is more to our thinking than logic, but jumping from that to faith is missing...

Another way of explaining our trust in logic (without resorting to faith) comes with understanding the ability that neural networks in our brains have...

Unfortunately, Scientific American has been pop science for awhile now, and is ever more commonly becoming little more than people expressing their po...

Umm... You realize that biology is the study of all life, and for biologists it is a pretty reasonable thing to do, to recognize the significant disti...

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You are projecting again. Scientists are pretty used to many people preferring woo.

For a biologist's take...

I suppose the least bad analogy would be different CPUs. C code can be compiled to run on different CPUs, and yield the same user interface, although ...

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Different human brains have their neurons interconnected in different ways. (And this is just one dimension of variation in the brains of individuals....

They just didn't know they were talking about brain activity. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_neuroscience:

:up: Some nontrivial percentage of individuals are psychopaths, and that has been investigated in a game theory context as well:

Do you understand that humans can become less wrong over a period of time? As a result of, among other things, paying attention to what we can be lear...

1. There is no valid logical inference there. 2. It seems to me that if we want to speak accurately, it would be more realistic to talk about mental e...

What impossible attributes?

Ugh! You reminded me of when I did some reading reading at https://www.puritanboard.com. Part of the atmosphere was browbeating people for showing nor...

:100: Unfortunately some also have a narcissistic need to believe themselves superior, and religions frequently feed such a need.

I don't see it as absurd myself. To me it seems awfully sensible, to see knowledge claims as pragmatic functions dealing with the world.

Interesting observation. It makes sense that people who make their living off their ability to act effectively in the heat of the moment are used to b...

Well that too. I tend to go for Guiness.

Is it superstition, or subconscious deep learning. By rinsing a glass, you can remove a substantial amount of heat from the glass. Without pre-chillin...

Careful. That way lies crank magnetism or even worse, fractal wrongness.

Indeed. Great card! :lol:

I.e. we would need to find a homunculus?

Misery.

I suppose it depends on what one categorizes under "thinking", but I'd say there is ample evidence of perception and thinking being entangled.

Psi. (Pun intended.)

From my perspective, the question of the thread looks like an attempt to address a complex subject (actually a diverse set of subjects) with a false d...

Ordinary language is tied to a frame of reference where the direction of the center of gravity of the Earth plays an important role. So it's not reall...

Yeah, a species in which half the population sees the world upside down doesn't seem scientifically plausible.

I'd say it tells us that our brains, given time, can adjust our perceptions so that we see things in a way that allows us to behave in a way consisten...

Some relevant science: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2012/nov/12/improbable-research-seeing-upside-down

There is an interesting parallel to humans being overly reliant on human authorities, and the development of religions.

Two hundred years ago, a machine that does what Chat-GPT does was unimaginable. Why think that the limits of your imagination is so informative?

This seems to assume that AI will never be provided with 'sensory organs', so that AI can never learn about reality first hand. That doesn't seem like...

Tell that to the spouse of the duplicated person. :wink:

AI outperforms humans in standardized tests of creative potential:

There's a bit of argumentum ad odium to that definition. One might also say, that some understanding of the way things reduce to biology is a matter o...

It seems to me we pick up experience and knowledge by nature. Experience and knowledge are part of most definitions of wisdom I have seen. Why think t...

It seems to me that it is time to rethink the relevance of the Turing Test. If humans ever create a machine that develops sentience, I would expect th...

There are different aspects of information processing to be considered. Yes, understanding of how neural networks can process data in powerful ways ha...

This seems overly dismissive to me. Nvidia hasn't become a two trillion dollar corporation because hype. Nvidia has become a two trillion dollar corpo...

It looks good on you!

Sure. I was just giving a thumb's up to the recognition of value in considering one's 'training set' shown by @"Olento"'s post.

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On a scientifically informed perspective, it would be naive to think that we're looking at anything from a completely objective point of view. We are ...

AMOC collapse would make Britain a far less balmy place.

Demonstrate the social ninjitsu skills that come from long involvement with philosophical arguments?

Do you think the statement is lacking in support? I would think randomly polling people on the question would show general agreement with ChatGPT.