Notices by Peter Moleman (molemanpeter@neuromatch.social)

"We now understand that the human mind is fundamentally not a logic engine but an analogy engine, a learning engine, a guessing engine, an esthetics-driven engine, a self-correcting engine."
Hofstadter, Foreword to the New Edition
( of Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid), 2020.

@eaton So your answer is: No LLMs can not be the basis of truth, I suppose?

@eaton Is the basis of truth in meaning?

#LLMs are based on language. Do we think the basis of truth is in language? #philosophy #neuroscience

How do you see your contribution to the solution of the “hard problem”? Have you solved it?
WE (answer): Since we argued that there is no unbridgeable gap to start with, it is a problem that has to be dissolved, not solved. We hope we have contributed toward its dissolution.

Ginsburg, Simona; Jablonka, Eva. The Evolution of the Sensitive Soul: Learning and the Origins of Consciousness (pp. 482-540). MIT Press. Kindle-editie.

@davidho Where is this?

@NicoleCRust @UlrikeHahn @jonny
@NicoleCRust
Beggs started out to think the cortex works at the edge of chaos. But that appeared not to be tenable. Not for the cortex, but more so for processes at the subcortical level.
Beggs JM (2022): The cortex and the critical point: understanding the power of emergence. Cambridge, Massachusetts, The MIT Press.

@roadriverrail Yes! No nonsense machine

@roadriverrail Quick Mill, never breaks down (the simple one: 820). It is dutch, Look at Bol.com. Can you buy it elsewhere?