[mjburgess]

You're an animal. You've no idea what you do, and you're using machines as a model. Likewise, in the 16th C. it was brass cogs; and in anchient greece, air/fire/etc.

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.

[pessimizer]

This isn't really responsive. Not only am I not using machines as any sort of model for human behavior, I'm trying to think about weird things you could do to a machine to make it ape a human.

> these self-reports, heavily coloured by the in-vogue tech are not science, they're pseudoscience.

I simply don't know what you're referring to. If you're referring to retrieving memories through associations, there's mountains of empirical evidence for that. If you're referring to wondering if I remember things, and being unsure of the information I'm recalling when I have less recall of that, or wondering if past situations compare well to current situations, well you got me. It's my personal belief that conscious thought is an epiphenomenon that is a rationalization of decisions already made.

But the rest of this is nonsense. Vivid imagery is not an argument for exceptionalism, no matter how much I say things drip or ooze. This is just association in action. You're trying to create a distinction for life (or rather what you recognize as life) life oozes and has viscera, so using a bunch of words that feel wet and organy can substitute for reason contra the robots.