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Re:Medicine's Machine Learning Problem by HPsquared on Friday January 08, 2021 @08:22AM (#25684417)
Brains and intelligence are pretty much just pattern recognition as well - "neurons that fire together wire together"
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Re:Medicine's Machine Learning Problem by qayxc on Friday January 08, 2021 @08:28AM (#25684477)
Brains in isolation, yes.

But intelligence isn't just a "brain in a jar" situation. Intelligence requires interaction with the environment - you'd never be able to tell whether a Boltzmann Brain is intelligent from just observing it, for example.

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