We don’t use the word homunculus enough with all the talk of AGI. It’s a great word and can fit well with a tweak, homunculi -> homunculAI and the definition fits for pre-human but having the form
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Cartesian theater fallacy makes it a bad metaphor, and the metaphor doesn’t really fit any existing architecture well anyway
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Fair. I was thinking more about it as the magical/fantasy creation of a homunculus that isn’t quite human but exhibits the form rather than the philosophical or psychological use of the word
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