@fishidwardrobe@mastodon.me.uk
Post #2548362
2026-04-19 14:31 UTC
@linguacelta@toot.wales i remember being mildly annoyed at this article. our brains *do* process information. computers do not: they process DATA.
semantics perhaps, but knowing the difference between information (that is me in that picture) and data (here are all the pixels in that picture) is kind of central to the topic at hand?
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@linguacelta@toot.wales 2026-04-19 14:57
@fishidwardrobe@mastodon.me.uk That's a good point. It's one of those things that I think I may decide I disagree with, but the process of working out that disagreement is going to be valuable.
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@kalong@sfba.social 2026-04-19 20:28
@fishidwardrobe@mastodon.me.uk @linguacelta@toot.wales The author doesn’t engage at all with how neural networks implemented on computers work, and how they learn. One can reasonably have a variety of opinions about how useful that is as a model of the brain, but you can’t realistically ignore it altogether.
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@LupinoArts@mstdn.social 2026-04-20 07:24
@fishidwardrobe@mastodon.me.uk i'm curious how you would explain the existence of certain kinds of aphasias? @linguacelta@toot.wales