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Re:Consciousness is a recurrent neural network by dwaltrip on Thursday November 24, 2016 @11:22PM (#13034396)
Computers don't model much at all, let alone themselves. They run static, one-off code that was fed to them by external sources, and contain no coherent, dynamic models of real world systems. My dog models more of the world than any computer we've yet built.

Sure, some computer programs model specific things quite well. But these models are very limited, fixed, and useless without human interpretation.

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Re:Consciousness is a recurrent neural network by hasenj on Friday November 25, 2016 @09:32AM (#13036941)
> these models are very limited, fixed, and useless without human interpretation.

What model _isn't_ useless without human interpretation?

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Re:Consciousness is a recurrent neural network by dwaltrip on Friday November 25, 2016 @03:49PM (#13039721)
The models of the world inside the brain of many different animals. They sustain themselves

Even the models of the world in our own brains are not fully known to us, and we largely make use of them without interpretation.

Basically, any model that wasn't created by humans does not need human interpretation.

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Re:Consciousness is a recurrent neural network by hasenj on Saturday November 26, 2016 @10:22AM (#13043947)
That's a circular argument. You're just assuming that these models have intrinsic meaning.
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