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Of course Mac running Safari is a glorified boolean circuit. It's programmed in a way to show the pixels on the screen in a way that you understand, and take in
by missingdays 4y ago
Of course Mac running Safari is a glorified boolean circuit. It's programmed in a way to show the pixels on the screen in a way that you understand, and take inputs from your mouse and keyboard in a way you understand
- jstanley 4y agoIt is true that a Mac running Safari is just a glorified boolean circuit. It is also true that a human being is just a glorified bunch of subatomic particles. It's not a useful way to understand what's going on. There is a higher-level structure built out of the lower-level pieces, and it is the higher-level structure that is important and not the lower-level pieces. It would be possible to make a web browser out of a different type of logic circuit. It's the higher-level structure of the browser that matters, and not the fact that it is built out of boolean logic. Similarly, with ChatGPT, it is the higher-level structures (whatever they may be) that matter, and not the low-level details of the neural network. The higher-level structures could be far too complex for us to understand.
- swid 4y agoI’m sure you don’t think it follows a human is a glorified rock? Both objects are processed by the universe under the same rules, and understanding how consciousness arises directly from physics is likely intractable.