Scary nerd musing: What if all our pattern recognition is just aliasing in a narrow band signal processing system w/o antialiasing filters 😱
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Cf. Robert Hecht-Nielsen's hypothesis that confabulation is the fundamental mechanism of cognition.
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oh hadn't heard of that; I've had exactly that thought after reading Oliver sacks...ref?
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@dualhammers the aliasing metaphor would translated more precisely to an infinite recursion of plato's cave
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@dualhammers the observer thinks he understands but is unaware he is experiencing projection effects from bigger world
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: You expect people to use their pattern recognition on your tweet, which doubts pattern recognition. Indiscriminate doubt is sin!
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@dualhammers I'm trying to work through it to completely understand the meaning myself. This is helpful: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliasing
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