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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Replying to @nikete
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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Replying to @Plinz
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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