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This is also true for pwople. How do you know humans are thinking and not following lots of social rules they learn thanks to special neural hardware for learni
by wbl 10y ago
This is also true for pwople. How do you know humans are thinking and not following lots of social rules they learn thanks to special neural hardware for learning social interaction?
Think about the intelligence conveyed in ritualized greetings.
- JumpCrisscross 10y agoYou are recapitulating Descartes. Consciousness appears to be immeasurable. You can only know that you are conscious. It is polite to give others the benefit of doubt.
- pharrington 10y agoThe commenter said nothing about consciousness. He simply said that just being able to hold a conversation is not a particularly useful measure of intelligence. The broader form of that is that we don't even know if humans in general are intelligent.
- Scarblac 10y agoYou can know that you are conscious, but how do you know you are intelligent?