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I lack your confidence, and find it a bit religious. > The idea that `mean(424,34324,223123,3424,....)` even has any revelance to us at all is quite absurd. Most of what I say to anyone is exactly this. When I'm about to give anyone any information, I look back at all of the relevant past information that I can recall (through word and sensory association, not by logic, unless I have a recollection of an associated internal or external dialog that also used logical rules.) I multiply those by strength of recollection and similarity of situation (e.g. can I create a metaphor for the current situation from the recalled one?). I take the mean, then I share it, along with caveats about the aforementioned strength of recollection and similarity of situation. This is what it feels like I actually do. Any of these steps can be either taken consciously or by reflex. It's not hidden. > I think it's deeply depressing that AI has been sold as something even capable of modelling anything humans do This is a bizarre position. All computers ever do is model things that humans do. All a computer consists of is a receptacle for placing human will that will continue to apply that will after the human is removed. They are a way of crystallizing will in a way that you can sustain it with things (like electricity) other than the particular combination of air, water, food, space, pressure, temperature, etc. that is a person. An overflow drain is a computer that models the human will. An automatic switch/regulator is the basic electrical model of human will, and a computer is just a bunch of those stitched together in a complementary way. |
You're no more made of clay & god's breath, as you are sand and electricy.
You're an oozing, growing, malluable organic organism being physiologically dynamically shaped by your sensory-motor oozing. You're a mystery to yourself, and these self-reports, heavily coloured by the in-vogue tech are not science, they're pseudoscience.
If you want to study how animals work, you'd need to study that. Not these impoverished metaphors that mystify both machines and men. No machine has ever acquired a concept through sensory-motor action, nor used one to imagine, nor thereby planned its actions. No machine is ever at play, nor has grown its muscles to be better at-play. No machine has, therefore, learned to play the piano. No machine has thought about food, because no machine has been hungry; no machine has cared, nor been motivated to care by a harsh environment.
An inorganic mechanism is nothing at all like an animal, and an algorithm over a discrete sequence of numbers with electronic semantics, is nothing like tissue development.
What you are doing is not something you can introspect. And you arent really doing that. Rather, you've learned a "way of speaking" about machine action and are back-projecting that onto yourself. In this way, you're obliterating 95% of the things you are.