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submitted 1 year ago by interolivary to c/technology

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We’ve learned to make “machines that can mindlessly generate text. But we haven’t learned how to stop imagining the mind behind it.”

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[–] interolivary 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

My understanding is that we still do not have a great consensus on how our own brains operate - how we actually think.

How our brains operate and how we think are in ways two different things, but my understanding is that you're correct to a large extent. Then there's the whole question of what consciousness even is.

I was actually just reminded of a good article on consciousness, I'll post it in !science@beehaw.org in just a mo

edit: https://beehaw.org/post/448653

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

At this point we're in philosophy rather than biology!

[–] interolivary 7 points 1 year ago

You can't get a theory of mind out of biology or neurology alone, you need philosophy to make sense of things and actually build a theory of why. See eg. cognition science

[–] jmp242@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

Yes, deep questions about things like minds often end up in philosophy.