I'm not sure proceedings should make anybody this excited. 
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Replying to @o_guest
I was exaggerating, slightly
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Replying to @mattsiegel
not sure I agree with you but I'm glad you like it!
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Replying to @o_guest
i'm really enjoying the Discussion in "What the Success of Brain Imaging Implies"! perceptions gradually processed into symbols? :D
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Replying to @mattsiegel
if you want to think of it that way – sure. I guess at some point percept has to become a concept. No claims about symbols tho.
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Replying to @o_guest @mattsiegel
Although I totally see where you are going with it and obviously yes, our brains can deal with symbolic reasoning.
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Replying to @o_guest
i'm excited about sub-symbolic representations being used for generalization. symbolic reasoning alone seems so brittle! :)
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Replying to @o_guest
yes, although i'm *imagining* brains do this too... and your analysis lends credence to this, imo :)
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Replying to @mattsiegel
definitely! brains go from non-symbolic to able to use symbols. That's definitely not under debate – absolutely!
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*not under debate by me INB4 any disagreements since we are on twitter after all haha
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