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My friend, the whole "study" is based on false assumptions and consist of interpretation of the data in the way which confirms these assumptions. This is not ev
by lngnmn2 5y ago
My friend, the whole "study" is based on false assumptions and consist of interpretation of the data in the way which confirms these assumptions. This is not even science, this is some blog posting kind of crap.
Every bit of observable behaviour could be explained in terms of habitual behaviour and physical pattern matching, exactly what a trained NN will do - it will perfectly accurately separate patterns which corresponds to different quantities, while posses no notion of any abstract concepts whatsoever.
Animals pattern match, but do not have abstract concepts. Well, enzymes do pattern matching but not counting.
- mkaic 5y ago"Every bit of observable behaviour could be explained in terms of habitual behaviour and physical pattern matching, exactly what a trained NN will do - it will perfectly accurately separate patterns which corresponds to different quantities, while posses no notion of any abstract concepts whatsoever." I think this is interesting -- what's stopping us from making that exact assumption? For all we know, higher consciousness and "humanity" is simply an emergent property of lots and lots of rote pattern recognition stacked on top of itself. I think there's an argument to be made that there's no line between "pattern matching" and "abstract concepts" -- it's more of a smooth, emergent gradient. Just my two cents.