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> We’re born with human brains, and human brains see the world in particular ways and not in other ways. We can’t hear things that dogs can hear, we can’t see t

• ben_w 7y ago
  ”See” has two meanings, the sensory input of photons and the recognition of an object or event. “Hear” likewise, which is why people argue if trees falling when nobody is around make a sound (is sound the vibration of air molecules which can be recorded by a microphone or is it the experience you have when that happens to you?). There are things I cannot see or hear even though my eyes and ears are good enough — the appeal of football, which key music is playing in, or (to the surprise of friends who like that sort of thing) if certain images are ”consensual BDSM” or ”assault”. There are thoughts that I am incapable of thinking. Given the problem of induction and its relation to the “no free lunch” theorem in AI, I believe that this is not merely an imperfection of my mind, but an inevitability.