Data do not understand cause and effect; functions do.https://twitter.com/DataSciFact/status/1012713607963009024 …
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Replying to @Plinz
Do you think it’s meaningful to distinguish between the function that is instantiated in a given system and the system itself? That is, *the person* (as a brain/body instantiating a function) understands. This might be pedantic.
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Replying to @RealtimeAI
It is the other way around: while the brain implements the model function (and the modeling functions), the person that understands is instantiated by the functions.
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Am I wrong when I think brains ( their particular and unique functions) understand the world each by its own way, i.e. differently? Or do you mean some universal function - principle of understanding?
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...i.e. the ability to understand symbols and abstracts?
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Replying to @RJsnda
To really understand means to map a domain on something you already know how to compute. Models are functions that explain how information relates to change in other information. The thing that thinks it understands is itself a model though.
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Replying to @Plinz
So questions like:”How concrete DNA code builds concrete body”, i.e. why informations play their concrete game...is similar sort of question ?
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I mean difficulties with computation precluding the understanding these processes.
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Yes. I don't think that you can understand how DNA encodes the shape of an organism if you don't understand cellular automata, basic ideas about topology etc.
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