And yet his rule-following paradox (which as far as I can tell is just Hume's problem of induction, lifted from Sextus Empiricus, who got it from Plato's *Meno*) is the best argument there is against AGI.
Since Kant we have a semblance of comprehension as how even the faculty of understanding can be functionally decomposed. It is a qualitatively exceptional faculty precisely because it is composed of myriad multi-level functions which can be not that different from a virus/prion.
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Complex systems are the products of structural and statistical complexity, generative entrenchment and dynamic constraints.
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I’m happy to accept that. I’m not sure what each of those terms mean, but you’ve written a book about it so I defer! What I can’t accept is that the understanding is a complex system. Any complexity would spoil its claim to knowledge.
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I have to disagree that understanding (or comprehension) can be decomposed, for if there were parts to the understanding then the skeptical paradoxes would afflict the gaps between these parts, just as it afflicts the gap between subject and object.
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