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Re:Stephen Fry – AI: A Means to an End or a Means to Our End? by vundercind on Friday September 20, 2024 @10:49AM (#41602547)
> You opened by saying you aren't doing God of the Gaps, but here you are doing it.

No! There’s a difference between a thing happening, and symbols we decided mean something bearing manipulated. The assigned meaning isn’t real in the way an actual process is. A flip-book of a person jumping rope isn’t a person jumping rope.

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Re:Stephen Fry – AI: A Means to an End or a Means to Our End? by jodrellblank on Friday September 20, 2024 @11:38AM (#41603040)
What do you think is the "real" version of understanding which brains do, and where / how do you think brains do it?
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