Re: Cool visual illusion


"Allan C Cybulskie" <allan.c.cybulskie@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "feedbackdroids" <feedbackdroids@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> Glen M. Sizemore wrote:
>> > "feedbackdroids" <feedbackdroids@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> > >> Where I agree with the behaviorists is that if we don't understand
> the
>> > >> beahvior we want our system to create, then we have no hope of
> solving
>> > >> AI.
>> > >> So, if you don't first understand the problem, you have no hope of
>> > >> creating
>> > >> the technology. And the only people who are hard at work trying to
>> > >> understand behavior, are the behaviorists.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > I seriously doubt that more than about 1% [rough guesstimate] of the
>> > > psychology community would agree with this. [and who might that 1%
> be?]
>> >
>> > Once again Dan brings out his "big guns" - a logical fallacy:
> behaviorism is
>> > unpopular, therefore it must be wrong.
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>> Are we confusing wrong with useful, again.
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> If you are looking for useful, then it would seem that you should be
> aiming
> for folk psychology, which up until now is clearly the most useful theory
> of
> mind that anyone has ever found. Everyone uses it.


This is largely incorrect. My dog scratches at the back door, but not
because she has a "theory" about what controls my "opening the door." This
is the same thing as claiming that we "follow rules" when we speak our
native language, or "calculate a trajectory" when we catch a ball. It is
simple-minded nonsense.




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