(February 3, 2016 at 3:35 am)Rhythm Wrote: Which would be the NN state "elephant", a description of the system, at that snapshot in time would be what the idea of an elephant was to comp mind....in this case, even though it has nothing in particular to do with the picture of the elephant. Mind/brain isn't being rational, just performing a series of logical operations with a useful outcome.
So long as "elephant" is the right answer, I'm golden.....I don't get trampled, for example. It doesn't matter that my mind may have perfomed a billion useless steps on the variable 011100100101, rather than responded to the elephant. What matters is whether or not it works.
That's right. In this sense, though, I'd posit that Google may be the mind of God, essentially. It's spooky how you type "a" and it fills in "Asian ass porn," right?
