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Bird wings are actually quite a bit more sophisticated than aircraft wings. Don't let that distract you from your point about belittling human cognition though.

• famouswaffles 3y ago
  Did he say otherwise ? The point is...who cares ? Planes fly and they so very very well. They even fly faster than any bird will ever be able to. So who cares that bird wings are "quite a bit more sophisticated". Sophistication is not and never was the goal.
  • __loam 3y ago
    We should care because we're all meat. Do you want to live in a society where people are devalued because a computer program approximates memory (badly)? Humans ought to be treated exceptionally regardless of how good a computer is able to do things. Computers are already ridiculously better at arithmetic than us, that doesn't devalue human rights. If you think you've got a system close to cognition, you better be god damn sure because the alternative is an enormous amount of human suffering.
• cwillu 3y ago
  Yes, that was exactly the point. Technology developed in imitation of a much more sophisticated and incompletely understood animal example, for which a more complete theory was developed. And that more complete theory eventually became sophisticated enough to comprehensively explain the biological artifact. (And in spite of that, we still keep birds around, because not everything of value about birds is captured by an aerodynamic analysis of a bird's wing. Obviously.)