All essays · 18
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Mind
№ 035
Where AI Is Really Thought About, and It's Not on LinkedIn
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Mind
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Quantum Computing and Thought. The God of the Gaps in a Physics Edition
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Mind
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Hallucinations and Lies. The Word the Industry Chose
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Machines That Seem to Think. ELIZA, Sixty Years On
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Identity as process. The self that rewrites itself every night
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The brain as a non-deterministic system. The noise was ours, not theirs
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Types of memory. One word for five different things
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Humour and mental structure. The joke AI explains but doesn't laugh at
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The emotion-reason pairing. AI is only the rider
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What an emotion is, and why nobody wants to say it out loud
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Recognizing isn't understanding, and the line between the two can't be seen
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Recognition as the basis of everything. What happens before you know you've thought
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№ 009
Intelligence at the limit. The honors student and the farmer
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States of the mind. No test measures the same person twice
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How the brain computes. Twenty watts and a consciousness
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