Jeff Gabriel

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If we are to understand how the mind, through the brain, makes us who we are, we need to consider the whole mind, not just the parts that subserve thinking.
Jeff Gabriel
This point is also critical to distinguishing between computers and thought generally. The mind is impacted by subtle dampners and amplifiers and whatever is initiated by various emotions. Possible to model i am sure but not straightforward as a reproduction as a neural net could be of pure cognition.
Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are
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