On 3/28/2015 1:32 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote:
> But that seems to rely on something (a soul) in addition to the numbers that is
conscious and supplies the meaning.
No it's like current image recognition programs, the "meaning" built by running the
neuronals network algorithm is internal to the program.
The meaning is still only relative to other things the program recognizes. As I
understand it a program can learn to recognize cats in videos; but it doesn't know
anything except cat and not-cat. In principle it can go on to recognize dogs and
relations like dog-chases-cat. But the meaning then of its state or even a sequence of
states depends on all those relations and objects it has inferred. It's just compressed
information from the videos and the meaning comes from them and is made possible by their
regularities.
Brent
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