From @Meaningness - “Reasonableness works directly with reality, whereas rationality works with formalisms. Rationalism assumes that a formalism somehow reflects reality, and glosses over questions about how that works.” https://meaningness.com/eggplant/reasonableness …
Yes… the one I’m suggesting is different, I think? I take it that some non-human animals have subjective awareness, but do not reason formally.
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Agree. The fascinating question is how far “down” subjective awareness goes. Dogs, yes. Snakes, I think so. Insects? Perhaps this is just a version of the idea that connect enough transistors, on the close order of the number of human neurons, & the machine becomes “self-aware.”
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This was the take in the 1960s, iirc. It featured in Heinlein’s The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. But my (very limited) understanding is that AI (and neuroscience) doesn’t think it works that way, anymore.
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I assume many things are meaningful to dogs, but they aren’t capable of rationality in the relevant sense.
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