but we are arguing NOT that you cannot use maths or any formal language (and that's a nonsense claim if anybody says that in almost any context btw) ceteris paribus, but we are commenting on the claim that cognition is FACTUALLY formal, aka formal realism in cognitive (neuro)science or makeism

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Going to do a thread, using some of my own (incl. older) work, to clear up some of these relevant concepts. Hope it helps builds conceptual hygiene and immunity to hyped claims about “AI” capabilities. 1/🧵

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As a chronically online neuroscientist, I often see the argument of "Consciousness must work via quantum effects, because I both are a complete mystery to me" and it's the silliest argument ever

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We still don’t have a coherent explanation for exactly what consciousness is. So it’s very hard to pinpoint exactly why an increasingly sophisticated AI could not one day be conscious.

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Banning smoking was truly one of the best things we achieved in recent history, shameful we didn't do something equivalent for petrochemicals

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