BI 111 Kevin Mitchell and Erik Hoel: Agency, Emergence, Consciousness
Brain Inspired
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I Think the Gap Is Probably a Bit Bigger Than People Think
Kain: I think emergence is very solvable scientifically. No, i don't think that there's anything in there. But for those sorts of questions, you know, we need theories of causation. So where does meaning come from? Let's go down this road. Kain: As we learn more about how neural mechanisms work and a seemingly under pin things like desires and beliefs and goals and so on, the less work there seems to be for them to do anything. The mental content doesn't seem to have any efficacy there. It's just like, well, look, the neural circuits are firing that way, and the're configured like this, and this is what's going to
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