Write4U
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Outright dismissal of a hypothesis is just as strong a stance as the strong stance itself.You once again miss the point of a moderate stance, and the folly a strong stance.
Outright dismissal of a hypothesis is just as strong a stance as the strong stance itself.You once again miss the point of a moderate stance, and the folly a strong stance.
Its not outright dismissal, so your point is moot.Outright dismissal of a hypothesis is just as strong a stance as the strong stance itself.
Try asking me. I'm happy to answer questions, if you're not sure about something, or if you want to know something. I'm not an expert in all of science, of course, but I know quite a lot of things. Also, I will let you know when I don't know the answer to something, which is much better than pretending.A useless enterprise, because you always avoid positing your (correct?) "understanding" of the science.
How dare I question the Great and Powerful Tegmark? Is that what you're saying?oh, man, I consider that a slanderous statement. (shivers)
Chalk up another thing you don't understand very well. ChatGPT, Copilot and other large-language model AI bots don't do "research". They merely calculate what word they ought to print next in any piece of generated text.No, It can do research much faster than any of us.
Then why do we have definitions like: Computational theory of mindThe brain is not a computer, there I said it.
Workers in the war doing calculations were called "computers" they computed but that was before we had computers.
In philosophy of mind, the computational theory of mind (CTM), also known as computationalism, is a family of views that hold that the human mind is an information processing system and that cognition and consciousness together are a form of computation.
The computational theory of mind holds that the mind is a computational system that is realized (i.e. physically implemented) by neural activity in the brain. The theory can be elaborated in many ways and varies largely based on how the term computation is understood. Computation is commonly understood in terms of Turing machines which manipulate symbols according to a rule, in combination with the internal state of the machine. The critical aspect of such a computational model is that we can abstract away from particular physical details of the machine that is implementing the computation.[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_theory_of_mind#For example, the appropriate computation could be implemented either by silicon chips or biological neural networks, so long as there is a series of outputs based on manipulations of inputs and internal states, performed according to a rule. CTM therefore holds that the mind is not simply analogous to a computer program, but that it is literally a computational system.[3]
Do you think that because there is a theory that the theory is therefore true?Then why do we have definitions like: Computational theory of mind
No, but at the same time, can anyone say it is not true?Do you think that because there is a theory that the theory is therefore true?
No, that is parsing and you know it.Do you now agree with DaveC that Copilot is not a search engine?
Of course it could be that you are so entrenched that you just refuse to even try.Personally, I doubt that it is solely your ability to communicate that is the root of the problem here. This is a judgment based on conversations I have had with you over a period of years, now
Well, we've come a long way from your initial ad hominems that I personally am totally incapable of understanding anything.Anything is possible, but in my judgment it is highly unlikely.