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Re:Understanding Causality Is the Next Challenge for Machine... by goatlover on Thursday October 29, 2020 @03:03PM (#24934242)
Einstein was inspired to come up with special relativity from that experiment because he had the relevant concepts to draw upon to think through various thought experiments. That and the math to back up his intuition.
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Re:Understanding Causality Is the Next Challenge for Machine... by jostmey on Thursday October 29, 2020 @04:05PM (#24935068)
Yes, but Einstein was able to learn cause and effect by interacting with the physical world as a child. Without being able to interact with an environment, the I believe the ability to learn causality is limited if not impossible
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