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"I take myself to be an expert in this area, and I think it's fairly obvious how they work" We can also say we understand chemistry but we don't understand how
by pmoriarty 3y ago
"I take myself to be an expert in this area, and I think it's fairly obvious how they work"
We can also say we understand chemistry but we don't understand how consciousness comes out of chemistry.
You can also say that humans are "just" physical processes, but that word "just" is doing a lot of heavy lifting.
- mjburgess 3y agoI'd also say I've sufficient expertise in animal learning to reject the idea that animals have shallow interior lives comprised of compressions of historical cases. A child touches a fireplace once -- not a thousand times. Because they are in direct causal contact with the world and their body has a whole-organism biochemical reaction to that stimulus which radically conditions their bodies in all sorts of ways This is a world apart from statistical learning wherein P(A|A causes B) and P(A|B) are indistinguishable -- and the bridge of "big data" merely illusory