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> I'd be prepared to argue that most humans aren't guessing most of the time. Research suggests otherwise[1]. Action seems largely based on intuition or other
by timschmidt 1y ago
> I'd be prepared to argue that most humans aren't guessing most of the time.
Research suggests otherwise[1]. Action seems largely based on intuition or other non-verbal processes in the brain with rationalization happening post-hoc.
I've figured for an age that this is because consciously reasoning through anything using language as a tool takes time. Whereas survival requires me to react to the attacking tiger immediately.
https://skepticink.com/tippling/2013/11/14/post-hoc-rationalisation-reasoning-our-intuition-and-changing-our-minds/ https://skepticink.com/tippling/2013/11/14/post-hoc-rational...
- codr7 1y agoIntuition and guessing couldn't be further apart. In fact, intuition is one of those things that a computer just can't do.
- timschmidt 1y agoIf you believe that physics describe the rules by which the universe operates, then there's literally nothing in the universe a large and fast enough computer can't emulate. Cyborg c.elegans seem to behave just like the biological version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3zLpm_FbPg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3zLpm_FbPg Intuition is a guess based on experience. Sounds an awful lot to me like what LLMs are doing. They've even been shown to rationalize post-hoc just as Humans do. Humans have incorrectly claimed to be exceptional from all of creation since forever. I don't expect we'll stop any time soon, as there's no consequence to suffer.
- codr7 1y agoIt's perfectly obvious to me that physics (excluding quantum physics which is scratching the surface) can't describe consciousness. If it could, it would have by now.