Comment by PaulDavisThe1st

Comment by PaulDavisThe1st 20 hours ago

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My point is that we know very little about the sort of "thought" that we are capable of either. I agree that LLMs cannot do what we typical refer to as "thought", but I thnk it is possible that we do a LOT less of that than we think when we are "thinking" (or more precisely, having the experience of thinking).

viccis 20 hours ago

How does this worldview reconcile the fact that thought demonstrably exists independent of either language or vision/audio sense?

  • PaulDavisThe1st 20 hours ago

    I don't see a need to reconcile them.

    • viccis 19 hours ago

      Which is why it's incoherent!

      • PaulDavisThe1st 19 hours ago

        I'm not clear that it has to be coherent at this point in the history of our understanding of cognition. We barely know what we're even talking about most of the time ...