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Yoshua Bengio: equipping AI with higher level cognition and creativity

The Robot Brains Podcast

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Is Language a Continuous Medium?

Language has effectively under the hood also being a continuous medium rather than discrete. So I have this theory about squalia, which is consistent at least with what we know from neuroscience. It's that when something arises to consciousness, it's your brain, your cortex, dynamical system converging to some attractors. And by definition, attractors are mutually exclusive, which means they have a discrete nature. You can't have both at the same time. The neck of the cube you see it one way or the other way. We can slip from one to the other, but it's a discrete choice.

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