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Mind is a reasonable term.

• mdp2021 4y ago
  There could be a number of philological analyses brought to 'mind', but maybe one is already fitting. Our fellow Croon in this page tells us the following remarkable exchange with an LLM chatbot: "What weighs more, one pound of feathers or two pounds of gold? // They weigh the same, as they both weigh one pound". Now: the mind is the place where contents happen and are remembered (in latin, "mens", "memor", "maneo" - the permanence - but also "moneo", which is "having you remember to have you think", and "monstro", which is "showing you to have you remember"). If the LLM construct structurally does not remember that "_two_" pounds of something in the example above, that is the ad-mon-ition (ex said "moneo"). ...But also: in the same family is Sanskrit "mantu", or "the advisor". Now, for something to properly be said to be capable of advising you, there are constraints...