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Comment by slopinthebag

13 hours ago

This is just pure unbridled reductionism. "Show me a single atom in the human body that is 'alive'. You can't? Therefore we're all zombies...."

Reasoning is an emergent property of complex systems. Prediction is not. Thus you cannot claim reasoning drives prediction.

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danielbln  13 hours ago

Why can't an emergent capability arise in service of a predictive objective?

  • slopinthebag  11 hours ago

    How would it?

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