Re: Cool visual illusion

"Allan C Cybulskie" <allan.c.cybulskie@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> "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.
> >
> >
> > Are we confusing wrong with useful, again.
>
> 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.

If this were a joke, I'd laugh. But because I think you are serious, I can
only shake my head.

Religion is far older, and far more useful than science by your measure
since more than 50% of the population feel it's a better answer to many
questions than science. I agree that it makes it more "useful" almost by
defition. But do you you understand why people use Religion? It has
nothing to do with finding the truth. It has everything to do with finding
peace of mind. Religion makes people feel better than science does, that's
why it's still used so much even though we as a culture understand how
wrong so much of the beliefes it's founded on are.

Likewise, "folk psychology" has a use. That's why it's been used for so
long and continues to be so popular. It's used to communicate behavior.
It's not used to explain it even though it's wrapped in a blanket that
would have us believe it's is an explanation. For the most part, it's the
same type of answer that Religion gives us - and answer that makes is feel
like we know something when in fact we know nothing. We like those answers
because it makes us feel better to believe we know something than to accept
the fact that we don't know it.

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