I’m reminded of a television show at the end of the 1970s, The Body in Question written and presented by Dr Jonathan Miller. In one episode he explains how through history our understanding of the human body has always been shaped by or recent technological advances, such as steam engines, the automated loom etc.
We now try to understand the brain and the human mind in terms of computers, and of course that only gives us a poor analog of reality which may somewhat assist with understanding it, but which may hinder our more complete understanding.
I read quite a bit of this and I'm not getting the point or understanding what the author is saying. On the one hand babies are born with reflexes and learning mechanisms. On the other, we're not born with knowledge, rules, representations, algorithms, models?
Be sure to read the article's comments for rebuttals. I think the dollar bill example is a poor argument; the fact the subject is able to recall any amount of visual details about a dollar bill at all is proof that some degree of information is in fact stored and retrieved in the brain.
> computers really do operate on symbolic representations of the world
They used to, but modern ML is more statistical and usually opaque. Though it turns out that the symbolic representations were a good idea, so we're adding them back as world models and workflows.
I’m reminded of a television show at the end of the 1970s, The Body in Question written and presented by Dr Jonathan Miller. In one episode he explains how through history our understanding of the human body has always been shaped by or recent technological advances, such as steam engines, the automated loom etc.
We now try to understand the brain and the human mind in terms of computers, and of course that only gives us a poor analog of reality which may somewhat assist with understanding it, but which may hinder our more complete understanding.
I read quite a bit of this and I'm not getting the point or understanding what the author is saying. On the one hand babies are born with reflexes and learning mechanisms. On the other, we're not born with knowledge, rules, representations, algorithms, models?
Be sure to read the article's comments for rebuttals. I think the dollar bill example is a poor argument; the fact the subject is able to recall any amount of visual details about a dollar bill at all is proof that some degree of information is in fact stored and retrieved in the brain.
> computers really do operate on symbolic representations of the world
They used to, but modern ML is more statistical and usually opaque. Though it turns out that the symbolic representations were a good idea, so we're adding them back as world models and workflows.
By reading this post you have used your brain to process information, thereby disproving his own point.
2016 and doesnt engage w connectionism, so useless