On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 1:54 PM, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 6:20 PM, Terren Suydam <[email protected]> > wrote: > > >> >>> My expectation is after I enter the duplicator >>> is >>> I will be in Santa Claus's workshop >>> >> >> > >> On what basis would you expect that? >> > > Freud > > would say it's because I had bad potty training when I was a > n > infant > , but > who know > s and > who > cares what > caused > me to expect that > ; > whatever the cause > the fact remains I > do > expect to be in > > Santa Claus's workshop > , I may be wrong but that's what I expect. But How anybody's expectations > have any relevance to the computational theory of mind is a utter mystery > to me. > > >> >> Even if you ask "what one and only one city will I be in?", your answer >> is a reflection of what you *expect* to happen. >> > > Who cares what I expect!!! What anybody expects to happen is irrelevant, > what does happen is not. > > > >> Almost every choice we make can be traced to an expectation of one kind >> or another. We live and die by expectations. >> > > And very ofter we make bad choices because our expectations turn out to > be dead wrong. > > Then we agree that expectations are important, since the wrong ones can kill us. Even more so, because when it comes to making decisions about the future, expectations are *all we have*. So for any theory of mind, computational or otherwise, understanding how we come to expect or predict what the world is going to do, is clearly of great importance. Terren -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
