
Inhuman Intelligence with Anil Bawa-Cavia
Interdependence
The Functionis Position of the Brain
In epistemology, or an philosophy of mind, you have the idea that the brain is a computer. And in popular culture, this had its climatic kind of expression in matrix. The idea that we are brains in a vat is ultimately the in point of sa, shall we say, an extreme functionis position. But there's a whole spectrum of weaker functionalis positions that i try to tease out. A and syphi is kind of littered with these kind of ideas. So one ar slightly weaker claim is something like, information is real. It's not a product ofa human theory of information. Quite a lot of marginal kind of notion plays a lot of role in certain
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