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Have you thought of brains as prediction machines? Imagine you walk into your room one day and find that your laptop is looking smaller than usual. Or that the stapler makes a different sound when being used Would you notice? Of course, we would. We notice these changes even if we are not attending to …
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A Thread Do we value speed or intuition? “Deep Blue didn’t win by being smarter than a human; it won by being millions of times faster than a human. Deep Blue had no intuition” 2. Do we really know how the brain produces a mind? One of the things I have oft pondered about is …
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What if your body were to be swapped whilst retaining the conscious, will that still be you? What makes you you? That is a question asked in John Scalzi’s sci-fi thriller, Old Man’s War Is it your consciousness that makes you you? If so, what exactly is consciousness, and how can …