We’ve learned to make “machines that can mindlessly generate text. But we haven’t learned how to stop imagining the mind behind it.”
We’ve learned to make “machines that can mindlessly generate text. But we haven’t learned how to stop imagining the mind behind it.”
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 [email protected] in just a mo
edit: https://beehaw.org/post/448653
At this point we’re in philosophy rather than biology!
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
Yes, deep questions about things like minds often end up in philosophy.