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>we generally know that we are being subject to an illusion, Is this an inherent power or a result of those methodological and institutional systems that reduc
by mustacheemperor 9y ago
>we generally know that we are being subject to an illusion,
Is this an inherent power or a result of those methodological and institutional systems that reduce our cognitive brittleness? The fata morgana is an illusion, but even today people see it and think it's a ghost ship, something that logically is completely and literally impossible. I'm not suggesting AI is on equal footing with humanity yet, but I think the comparison of these limitations is valid.
- mannykannot 9y agoMany illusions - especially those involving color or apparent motion - are consequences of relatively low-level signal processing. Putting those aside, what you call 'methodological and institutional systems' I think of as 'understanding'. It feels to me that how I make sense of my senses is, after the signal processing, loosely based on something like forming hypotheses about what is going on in the context of how we understand the world, and evaluating their consistency and credibility. I accept the possibility that all of this is nothing more than very sophisticated statistical pattern-matching, but that has yet to be demonstrated.