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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 02/05/2013 06:59, Kelly Anderson
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<div dir="ltr">On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 3:51 AM, Gordon <span
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<div><span style="background-color:transparent">We need
to understand the brain before we can hope to
duplicate one. It's pretty naive, I think, to
suppose that we can create one even before we know
how they work. </span><br>
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<div style="">Agreed. Have you read Kurzweil's most recent
book? What do you think of it?</div>
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I read it. I think it is surprisingly mainstream: many
neuroscientists (computational or not) believe roughly in something
similar. What many do not believe in, and I think Ray does, is that
the system is as clean as described. In particular, he is a
"cortical chauvinist", believing that the cortex is mostly what
matters - but the subcortical systems is what sets our goals, style
of learning and evaluations. <br>
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His philosophy of mind chapter is light - the recent email
discussions has, despite much heat, delved into many issues he just
saunters past. I was also dismayed by his very simplistic take on
how to set AI motivations.<br>
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All in all, my view is that it is a readable popular introduction to
connectionist style models of the brain. <br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Anders Sandberg,
Future of Humanity Institute
Philosophy Faculty of Oxford University </pre>
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