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S3E6: Geoffrey Hinton on the Exploration of Thought

Theory and Practice

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What's Funny About Mental Terms?

Sensions are about getting at my internal states by telling you what they might cause. Thoughts are very special, because they tell you a string of symbols that might have caused that internal state. And once you see it like that, there's nothing spooky about mental descriptionsa mental states. The word mental just means hypothetical. I think the best way to describe a thought is not with the implementation hardware of the thought, yes, but of the substraits with which thoughts kind of trade in.

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