The Buddhist philosophical tradition, interestingly, has produced essentially all the same metaphysical positions as the Western one
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I myself have no particular position; but direct realism seems more-or-less right. My thesis work was heavily influenced by Gibson,
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as well as visual psychophysics, which has pretty much a direct-realist implicit assumption
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is this why you left the field? i don't think that direct realism can work
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our experience of the world is a hierarchical predictive encoding of the low level patterns of our sensory neurons
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mmm… difference of opinion may just be definitional rather than substantive; not sure!
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AI embodimentalism a la early Brooks, Pfeiffer needs realism: mind emerges as resonance effect over body world interaction
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what a tragedy, this stuff was vile and has poised some good minds of your generation
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oh, well; we can compare notes again in 20 years and see who has the upper hand then :-)
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I suspect I won't be around then, and Rodney's Roomba will still not be sentient, but perhaps you can talk to Hassabis :)
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