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Re: Mind Organization Insight

This is a response-post to Mind Organization Insight on Iteration. David writes about the mental mechanism commonly called “attention” or ” focus” or “thinking about”. This is a subject I care a lot about, as it seems to be the keystone of human intelligence. This post is very much a direct response to the other, [...]

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Why is it so annoying to be wrong?

The all-important black swan If someone is interested in the truth, it’d be a blessing to them to learn exactly what falsehoods they believe. An ideal truth-seeker would love to be wrong, because it would give them the chance to improve their ideas. This is the basis of scientific thinking, but it’s not a very [...]

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Regarding Memory

Continuing my search for AGI I’ve been thinking about conscious and unconscious thought. Investigating these led me to explicit and implicit memory. This actually led me to the lecture by Eric Kandel (above), which goes into good detail the mechanisms by which animals learn.

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