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#222 – Jay McClelland: Neural Networks and the Emergence of Cognition

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Cognitive Psychology of the Human Mind

Psychiatrists for a time held the flag of where the deep thinkers about the human mind. I think that flag has been taken from them and carried by people like you it's more in cognitive psychology especially when you have a foot in the computational view of the world. Using intuition you can start being the philosopher like Richard Feynman is the philosopher, he says. Psychiatrists become much more like doctors they're like very medical they help people with medication biochemistry and so on but they are no longer the book writers and philosophers which of course I admire.

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