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Paul Thagard on cognition, consciousness, misinformation, balance

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Hegel's Coherence Approach to Computational Logic

I grew up reading a lot of Hegel as well, and became a bit disillusioned with it because of exactly what you pointed out. But computational logic seems so interesting and such a promising way to rescue it. Well, he says really vague things like the true as the whole. And what do you what does that mean? Well, a way of interpreting it is to say that figuring out what's true requires coherence of everything that you know. How could that be something that your brain with only 86 billion neurons could do? Well, my neural network approach to coherence explains that. So it takes this idea of coherence that was really pretty vague and Hegel and his disciples turn it into

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