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Re:Consciousness Goes Deeper Than We Think by eli_gottlieb on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @10:20AM (#15293987)
>But that is itself a theory about the problem of consciousness!

No it's not! It's a computational theory of motivated action.

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Re:Consciousness Goes Deeper Than We Think by roceasta on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @10:28AM (#15294087)
What I mean is that the idea that reinforcement learning is a 'low level dual' of the problem of consciousness is also a theory about the problem of consciousness. It's part and parcel of philosophical topics that one can't get out of the game...
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