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Re:How to Create a Mind - Book Review by fmoralesc on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @10:42AM (#5331685)
McGinn is quite an interesting philosopher. Mainly, a pessimist regarding the mind-body problem; his position was that its solution is beyond human grasp, last time I checked. So he is at the very oposite pole to people like Kurzweil.

The problem isn't only about human intelligence, it is about human mentality. McGinn's point is that pattern recognition is not essential to it; it very well might be true that pattern recognition is essential to intelligence, but that means nothing to the problem of mentality unless you reduce mentality into intelligence.

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Re:How to Create a Mind - Book Review by duaneb on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @11:17AM (#5331887)
> The problem isn't only about human intelligence, it is about human mentality. McGinn's point is that pattern recognition is not essential to it; it very well might be true that pattern recognition is essential to intelligence, but that means nothing to the problem of mentality unless you reduce mentality into intelligence.

Well stated.

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