Tag: Cognition
AI tools produce dazzling results – but do they really have ‘intelligence’?
Existing AI systems learn patterns from very large piles of data – but they have no insight.
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13 Feb, 08:00 PM
Organisms without brains can learn, too – so what does it mean to be a thinking creature?
Box jellyfish have no brains, yet were recently found to be able to learn from touch. Many brainless organisms are now forcing us to rethink what it means to learn.
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2 Oct, 01:00 AM
Arithmetic has a biological origin – it's an expression in symbols of the 'deep structure' of our perception
Humans have been making symbols for numbers for thousands of years. Different cultures developed their own symbols, but all use addition and multiplication, suggesting arithmetic is a universal truth.
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15 Aug, 09:00 AM
