[ExI] Strong AI Hypothesis: logically flawed?

William Flynn Wallace foozler83 at gmail.com
Fri Oct 3 20:13:11 UTC 2014


Tomaz, I am confused as to what misconception (according to you) I am
suffering from.  bill w

On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Tomaz Kristan <protokol2020 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Because William, it's quite a common misconception. And it is very wrong
> at the same time.
>
> On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 5:32 PM, William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> If my views are of no use, Tomaz, why are you asking me questions you can
>> easily find with a Google search?  bill w
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 10:27 AM, Tomaz Kristan <protokol2020 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> >
>>> ​Whatever number it takes to make up most of your forebrain.​
>>>
>>>
>>> Really? How deep this forebrain goes? To the half of brain, or what?
>>>
>>> Your view is of no use, utterly!.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 4:30 PM, William Flynn Wallace <
>>> foozler83 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> How many cells must die, for me to die?
>>>>>
>>>>> ​Whatever number it takes to make up most of your forebrain.​
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ​Shades of Korzybski and Hayakawa and general semantics:  the map is
>>>> not the territory.  It could be argued that all copies are flawed in some
>>>> way.  (Pratchett fans will see a parallel in the dwarf's holy hammer.)
>>>>
>>>> It used to be thought that neurons were never replaced and now that
>>>> idea has gone out the window.  But do all neurons get replaced?  Dunno.
>>>> But perhaps the deterioration of them and partial replacement​ account for
>>>> many memory errors over the years (though confabulation probably accounts
>>>> for most).  bill w
>>>>
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