Subtly wrong ideas are much more dangerous to progress in science than plainly wrong ideas. Some subtly wrong ideas seem to include mirror neurons, integrated information theory, the gut brain, the extended mind and autopoiesis.
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yet we have immortal cell lines and neural implants. Perhaps a question that helps to clarify, how are you operationalizing mind? Alternative framing: subtly wrong ideas that replaced plain wrong ideas make for local minima that are harder to break out of than the plain wrong
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I think of the mind as a set of functional principles that implement sufficiently general function approximation in the service of some regulation goal to generate a coherent model of a reality that is complex enough to contain it.
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Real life cycles are more of a corkscrew shape than a circle. Repeating AND changing. Or, perhaps, a Lorenz attractor, but expanding in time. And, of course, all individuals are sort of tree-shaped, with infinite intertwining branches as our bits disperse away from our trunk.
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The first statement has nothing to do with autopoiesis, the second one even supports it.
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