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What would it mean exactly to be "more than statistics"? Does the human brain qualify?
by sebzim4500 3y ago
What would it mean exactly to be "more than statistics"? Does the human brain qualify?
- goatlover 3y agoYeah, the brain is alive and is trying to keep the rest of the organism alive But n an environment.
- circuit10 3y agoThat’s clearly not a useful way to define intelligence though
- ben_w 3y agoOne could reasonably say that's merely what the statistics are doing, not evidence to deny that the brain is just statistics.
- goatlover 3y agoStatistics is about the likelihood of events happening. It's not the things themselves. A brain isn't a statistical model. It's a bunch of living cells. It may do the equivalent of statistical modeling for some activities, like predicting what comes next. But it's more than just a model. Models are like maps. We make them.
- ben_w 3y agoThat the brain is made of cells seems no more important to "why might an LLM not be as intelligent as a brain?" than the fact that cells are made of chemicals and the chemicals are fancy quantum fields that can be modelled as differential equations of a complex valued wave equation such that the squared magnitude of the wave corresponds to a probability.