Mirror neurons I get, say more about the 1. *gut brain* and 2. extended mind ( what do those mean and why are they problems )?
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The gut brain is a cluster of ideas around the intuition that the intestinal neurons that line the gut [possibly in democratic cooperation with the microbiome] to form a secondary brain that shapes cns cognition in significant ways.
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how are autopoiesis and extended mind subtly wrong?
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Physical systems mostly don't actually revisit previous states, and complex ones never do. The environment is relevant to the functionality of the mind only as a set of dynamic constraints.
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Hm... No conv nets on the list? ;)
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I think of conv nets as a solution to solve the problem of multiple feature instantiation in the context of a feed forward paradigm of function approximation. They seem to work quite well for certain problems.
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pli(n)z explain
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You can build ideas, a career and even a field on subtly wrong premises, but not on obviously bad ones. This leads to intellectual and social downstream dependencies that may strongly motivate you to resist questioning your assumptions and to dismiss alternatives.
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I guess the reverse is true. Subtly wrong ideas are better for progress in science than plainly wrong ideas. We progress by correcting errors. If the idea happens to contain truth, when we correct it we move closer to truth again.
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Obviously bad ideas almost never get traction. Subtly wrong ones can spawn entire paradigms and university departments, or fatally poison existing ones.
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