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This. Also consider that a human brain that is able to figure stuff from as little as a single datapoint is normally exposed to at least 4 years of massive and

• mrandish 4y ago
  > those humans not "trained" in their first years of life will never be able to harness language I'm not an expert in the field but I'd always understood this effect was thought to be (probably) due to human "neuro-plasticity" <--(possibly not the correct technical term), in only the first years of life being genetically adapted to have some traits necessary for efficient human language development which are not available (or much harder) later in life. If correct, this has implications for how we structure and train synthetic networks of human-like neurons to produce human-like behaviors. The interesting part, at least to me, is it doesn't necessarily mean synthetic networks of human-like neurons can never be structured and trained to produce very human-like minds. This poses the fascinating possibility that actual human minds, including all the cool stuff like emotions, qualia and even "what it feels like to be a human mind" might be emergent phenomena of much simpler systems than some previously imagined. I think this is one of the more uncomfortable ideas some philosophers of mind like Daniel Dennett propose. In short, nascent AI research appears to support the idea human minds and consciousness may not be so magically unique. (or at least AI research hasn't so far disproved the idea)