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by throwup238 426 days ago
It's definitely a trap for those who aren't familiar with the existing academic work in philosophy, cognition, and neuroscience. There are no definitive answers but there are lots of relatively well developed ideas and concepts that everyone here on HN seems completely ignorant of, even though some of the ideas were developed by industry giants like Marvin Minsky.

Stuff like society of minds (Minksy), embodied cognition (Varela, Rosch, and Thompson), connectionist or subsymbolic views (Rumelhart), multiple intelligences (Gardner), psychometric and factor-analytic theories (Carroll), and all the other work like E. Hutchins. They're far from just academic wankery, there's a lot of useful stuff in there, it's just completely ignored by the AI crowd.