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Re:Language models can explain neurons in language models by int_19h on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @03:17PM (#35892126)
If it performs a computation, it is by definition running some algorithm regardless of how it's implemented in hardware / wetware. How is it a stretch?

The only way our brains could be not algorithmic is if something like soul is a real thing that actually drives our intelligence.

Re:Language models can explain neurons in language models by YeGoblynQueenne on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @06:27PM (#35894336)
Why? Rain is not algorithmic, clouds are not algorithmic, waves in the sea are not algorithmic, yet they are entirely physical processes that have nothing to do with souls.
Re:Language models can explain neurons in language models by int_19h on Thursday May 11, 2023 @05:47PM (#35908835)
None of these are computational processes, unlike intelligence. Unless you're trying to argue that intelligence isn't, either?
Re:Language models can explain neurons in language models by YeGoblynQueenne on Friday May 12, 2023 @11:02AM (#35917291)
Heaven forbid. I'd go to jail for such a blasphemous transgression of common law, wouldn't I? Thank you kind stranger for reminding me of the legislation.
Re:Language models can explain neurons in language models by AdieuToLogic on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @06:36PM (#35894419)
> The only way our brains could be not algorithmic is if something like soul is a real thing that actually drives our intelligence.

Therein lies the question, one which deserves contemplation and can lead to Enlightenment.

Which then begs the question; is Enlightenment a "real thing" and, if not, how is it that it can be experienced?