Thoughtcrime
Cognition is nothing but computation
Hobbes 1655
Julia and John are talking about the following article:
The Laws of Thought

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Julia
Hi John, I’m back! 😊

John
Ok, great! What did you find out?😊

Julia
On the lowest levels where data comes in and is processed, the material implementation does matter a lot and very directly

Julia
but on higher levels of abstraction, it matters less, except in a general sense, constraining processing speed and memory size

John
And what is your conclusion about what to include in the article then?

Julia
I think I agree with you that we don’t need to go back all the way to the mythological era

John
But?

Julia
well, I suppose it does make sense to include something about the history of psychology

John
Aha, and why would that be?

Julia
Both Cho and Sam mentioned “the rules of thinking” and “the laws of thought”, isn’t that what we should be looking at?

John
Maybe, but the article is about AI, not human psychology …

Julia
And yet human intelligence is the only intelligence we really know, more or less

Julia
So where do we get the “intelligence” part from, if not ourselves?

John
Hmmm, I see what you mean. So then we need a section on how we discovered our own laws of thought and then put them in a machine?

Julia
Exactly! That was what I was getting at! 😅

John
OK, I do think that makes sense. Then we can’t just talk about computer technology since the 1950s, I guess

Julia
No indeed, we should go back at least to the 19th century

John
Works for me! But we still have a word limit to observe, so we should be quite selective

Julia
I’ll get right on that, no problem! 😉

John
Thank you so much for your help! 😊
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