Giovanni, Going back to your earlier posting in this thread...
On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Giovanni Santostasi <[email protected]>wrote: > Why the brain gets stuck in so many fallacies and misconceptions? > > Why does it take a lot of discipline and training to get rid or minimize > these misconceptions and fallacies? > > Why so much human behavior is based on a world view and model of the world > that is imaginary and very far from a realistic and physics based > interpretation of reality (see religion as a powerful force in much of > human history?). > We model EVERYTHING, including ourselves. People develop models of what is happening behind their eyeballs that have NOTHING in common with what is really happening. The "study" of our models of ourselves, that probably have nothing in common with actual operation, is called Cognitive Psychology. Some people even attempt to write code to mimic their mental models, and we call these people AGIers. I have attempted to engage in discussions about this fallacy with Ben, Richard, and others, but there has been no "pushback". This seems to be from two causes: 1. Anyone (like me) who dismisses nearly the whole of cognitive psychology MUST be crazy. 2. They couldn't grok that there was absolutely no reason to believe that their models had anything to do with reality. Now, others are stepping in to fill this"void". Those who would argue this: Please don't post any arguments without including a sentence or two indicating that you grok the argument that our models of ourselves are probably unrelated to what is really happening, and then explain why you disagree with this. Steve ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-c97d2393 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-2484a968 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
