2023-09-14 06:12 UTC
@tyrell_turing@fediscience.org
Basically, the category mistake you make (it's called the equivalence fallacy) is that you mistake the map for the territory, your model for the real world.
That's what computationalism is. Since the 1980s (no earlier) we've slid into the deluded opinion (esp. in the fields of cognitive neuroscience & AI) that the world is a computer.
It's a dangerous view, that leads people like Bengio & many others to take on really foolish views about AGI.
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@yoginho@spore.social 2023-09-14 06:15
@tyrell_turing@fediscience.org Ultimately, it is computationalism (and its other reductionist-mechanistic relatives) that are causing our delusion that we can control and manipulate a predictable world. I may sound a little hyperbolic, but the kind of worldview you are propagating here is likely to kill us all, unless we learn to realize the world for what it is, large, ill-defined, fundamentally unpredictable & beyond our grasp. Computationalism is delusion of grandeur. The ultimate human foolishness.