RT @curtdoolittle: @Sov3r3ignSoul @JohnMarkSays Europeans are the gods among men, and first among men. Not because we are yet gods ourselve…
Source date (UTC): 2020-02-13 16:04:25 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1227986895529029633
RT @whyvert: The more ethnic hierarchy in an army, the worse its battlefield performance since 1800: lopsided casualties, mass desertion an…
Source date (UTC): 2020-02-13 03:20:39 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1227794688968732672
Read and commented upon. … Hanson is trying to answer some error because of some consequence of it. Unstated, we don’t know what it is. I could just as easily argue he’s wrong. So, what error of externality is he trying to quash?
Source date (UTC): 2020-02-12 20:12:01 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1227686816888819714
Reply addressees: @eruditenights @Outsideness @i_contemplate_ @vonkronstadt @urcum62
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The difference between the engine of a 3d video game and the human brain turns out to be terrifyingly small. We just do everything in massive parallel and at a much lower voltage and current because of it, and we do the prediction as well as the construction.
Source date (UTC): 2020-02-12 19:45:39 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1227680184901537793
Reply addressees: @robinhanson
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@robinhanson If the question is ‘who is the observer’ (which I suspect is the origin of most problems in philosophy and cognitive science) it’s memory of the last few memories recursively processed as a stream of changes in model in the hippocampal region. Consciousness is a verb not a noun.
Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1227679648219324416
If the question is ‘who is the observer’ (which I suspect is the origin of most problems in philosophy and cognitive science) it’s memory of the last few memories recursively processed as a stream of changes in model in the hippocampal region. Consciousness is a verb not a noun.
Source date (UTC): 2020-02-12 19:43:31 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1227679648219324416
Reply addressees: @robinhanson
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@robinhanson Why do I care? No more woo woo in cognitive science please. If you can’t pass the mirror test, the gesture test, sympathy test (cooperation), demonstrate natural operational grammar (language), and create multi-part tools, or enter into agreement (consent) then you’re far behind.
Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1227679190314573825
Why do I care? No more woo woo in cognitive science please. If you can’t pass the mirror test, the gesture test, sympathy test (cooperation), demonstrate natural operational grammar (language), and create multi-part tools, or enter into agreement (consent) then you’re far behind.
Source date (UTC): 2020-02-12 19:41:42 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1227679190314573825
Reply addressees: @robinhanson
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@robinhanson To equate sentience (feeling of changes in state), and awareness (of change instate of environment) and semi-consiousness (prediction of future states and possible reactions), consciousness (prediction of future permutations of state), to transformations of state is a leap.
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To equate sentience (feeling of changes in state), and awareness (of change instate of environment) and semi-consiousness (prediction of future states and possible reactions), consciousness (prediction of future permutations of state), to transformations of state is a leap.
Source date (UTC): 2020-02-12 19:38:56 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1227678491539365890
Reply addressees: @robinhanson
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@robinhanson So if the point is to clarify that the brain is just a collection of similar cells in various forms of organization, and that for all intents and purposes our brain is an outgrowth of our consciousness (modeling of our body and movement in space) yes.
Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1227678025543757826
So if the point is to clarify that the brain is just a collection of similar cells in various forms of organization, and that for all intents and purposes our brain is an outgrowth of our consciousness (modeling of our body and movement in space) yes.
Source date (UTC): 2020-02-12 19:37:05 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1227678025543757826
Reply addressees: @robinhanson
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@robinhanson To say that a fish is sentient and aware is true. To say it is conscious is to demand we define the spectrum of predictive models capable for the organism, and its ability to react vs choose vs reason vs calculate vs calculate transformations of state vs calculate cooperation.
Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1227677343428288512
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@curtdoolittle
@robinhanson To say that a fish is sentient and aware is true. To say it is conscious is to demand we define the spectrum of predictive models capable for the organism, and its ability to react vs choose vs reason vs calculate vs calculate transformations of state vs calculate cooperation.
Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1227677343428288512
To say that a fish is sentient and aware is true. To say it is conscious is to demand we define the spectrum of predictive models capable for the organism, and its ability to react vs choose vs reason vs calculate vs calculate transformations of state vs calculate cooperation.
Source date (UTC): 2020-02-12 19:34:22 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1227677343428288512
Reply addressees: @robinhanson
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@robinhanson A statement without meaning – there’s only one cell type in the nervous system, three subtypes, but almost countless variation that all functional regions in the brain evolved from. So what? Does that mean we can’t demarcate dramatic evolutionary leaps in function by organism?
Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1227676608431116288
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@curtdoolittle
@robinhanson A statement without meaning – there’s only one cell type in the nervous system, three subtypes, but almost countless variation that all functional regions in the brain evolved from. So what? Does that mean we can’t demarcate dramatic evolutionary leaps in function by organism?
Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1227676608431116288
A statement without meaning – there’s only one cell type in the nervous system, three subtypes, but almost countless variation that all functional regions in the brain evolved from. So what? Does that mean we can’t demarcate dramatic evolutionary leaps in function by organism?
Source date (UTC): 2020-02-12 19:31:27 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1227676608431116288
Reply addressees: @robinhanson
Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1227255091725389824
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@robinhanson
“All vertebrates possess the same basic brain—and forebrain—regions. … [None] are evolutionarily newer in some mammals than others. … even the prefrontal cortex, a region associated with reason and action planning, is not a uniquely human structure.”
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