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yatopifo 57 minutes ago [-]
It would be helpful to define "consciousness". I'm not convinced that i as a human have this "consciousness" thing. In fact, I strongly suspect that i am merely a statistical machine picking words from a learned distribution.
cj17382 2 hours ago [-]
I don't disagree with the title of the article but I also don't think you can prove anything about consciousness with language. How consciousness can arise from matter is still a very much a mystery.
rf15 2 hours ago [-]
How is it that sign language association learning is different from spoken language learning? What about humans using simple sign language in their early life?
Is it not possible that we try to detract too much here?
customguy 2 hours ago [-]
> How is it that sign language association learning is different from spoken language learning?
Huh? The article doesn't claim anything like this.
Terr_ 2 hours ago [-]
Yeah, sign-language versus spoken-language is just an implementation-detail for which signals Koko was reproducing.
In some parallel-universe where Koko was a parrot "speaking" English, we'd have the same set of philosophical issues and concerns.
Is it not possible that we try to detract too much here?
Huh? The article doesn't claim anything like this.
In some parallel-universe where Koko was a parrot "speaking" English, we'd have the same set of philosophical issues and concerns.